#the angel of darkness

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Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness ad (2002)

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THE ALIENIST: Angel of Darkness (2020) Daniel Brühl as Dr. Laszlo Kreizler More behind-the-scenes stills from the second season.

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The Alienist show was on my watchlist on Netflix for literal years. Years! I saw it was leaving soon, so I decided to binge watch it, and I fell in love with season 1 (season 2 had some things I disliked, like Marcus dying, but still). I’m gonna look into the books now, but can we talk how bad it is to finally get into something years after it came out, and all online discourse is over, there is no fanfiction, headcanons or expansion from fans anymore, and almost no one is talking about it? I’m dying to talk about it with someone, but it fells like I’m the only one here.

I feel you!! I don't feel like the fandom is entirely dead, but God I wish I had been here as soon as the series came out. I tend to hyperfixiate so a proper fan over-excited answer on here would have been fine.

I've been preparing some texts to post here and a few fanfictions but haven't got the inspiration lately. Caleb Carr passing away has weirdly kept me away from re-reading the books, so I lost my inspiration.

I will rewatch the show, since you reminded me it will leave soon. How nice you did watch it in the end! And I 100% recommend the books (if you go down my profile, you'll know how much I adore them).

Of course we can talk about The Alienist. For starters, who thought it was a good idea to kill Marcus??!! I promise you, the book will leave you so much more satisfied.

(Me every time I remember season 2)

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Favorite Episodes of "THE ALIENIST: ANGEL OF DARKNESS" Season Two (2020)

Below is my ranking of the Season One episodes of "THE ALIENIST: ANGEL OF DARKNESS", the 2020 adaptation of Caleb Carr's 1997 novel, “The Angel of Darkness”.  Created by Jakob Verbruggen and Cary Fukunaga, the television series starred Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning:

1.  (2.05) "Belly of the Beast" - The team races to find the killer responsible for murdering an employee at the Lying-In Hospital.

2.  (2.04) “Gilded Cage” - The clock is ticking for the team to locate baby Ana Linares, the infant daughter of the Spanish consul-general. Meanwhile, Sara Howard, now a private detective, is worried about her young undercover detective Bitsy Sussman.  William Randolph Hearst hosts a lavish ball celebrating his goddaughter Violet's engagement to John Moore, New York Times illustrator.

3.  (2.07) “Last Exit to Brooklyn” - Sara, Moore and alienist Laszlo Kreizler travel to Brooklyn in search of clues hidden in the killer's dark past.

4.  (2.01) “Ex Ore Infantium” - One year after Season One, Sara seeks out Dr. Kreizler's help in finding the kidnapped baby Ana.  Dr. Kreizler reunites with Moore and the rest of the original team.  And their search for the missing child brings them into contact with a mysterious woman with a murderous past, who is connected to a notorious gang.

5.  (2.08) “Better Angels” - Sara, Moore, and Kreizler have their final confrontation with the killer/kidnapper, and struggle with decisions about their future paths.

6.  (2.02) “Something Wicked” - Sara uncovers a clue at the Siegel-Cooper department store.  Moore struggles to balance his personal and professional life, as he investigates a link to New York's criminal underworld. Kreizler suspects dark goings-on at the Lying-In Hospital, while former police chief Thomas Byrnes plots against their investigations.

7.  (2.06) “Memento Mori” - Sara and John continue to search for information about Libby Hatch, a nurse at the Lying-In Hospital.  Kreizler is nearly ruined by a tragic accident. Sara and the team have to work with Byrnes to find a new missing child from the Vanderbilt family.

8.  (2.03) “Labrynith” - Sara persuades a young nurse to disclose what happens behind closed doors at the Lying-In Hospital.  Meanwhile, Kreizler is convinced that hypnosis might unlock Señora Linares’ traumatic memories of her daughter’s kidnapping.  Moore introduces Sara to a well-connected friend to further the investigation.

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FIVE-FINGER DISCOUNT SOUNDTRACK Playlist It's finally here! My first proper fan fiction!

This is a playlist I've put together to set the mood and provide a pleasant background for reading. Note: This is the full playlist for all 3 chapters of the story. If you don't want any mood spoilers, take a look at the fanfic description first ;) You can find the story here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14317414/1/Five-Finger-Discount

And I've made notes in the story about what song to listen to during which scene. Have fun!

P.S.

I'd like to dedicate this story to all my Lartis Girls out there <3

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#OnThisDayInGaming! 🎂

Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness for the PS2 turns 20 today in North America! Here is the mini documentary about how the game was made that could be watched from within the game!

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It’s been a long time.

(Model from atlantisB).

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I might read The Alienist + The Angel of Darkness (for the 6th time).

Or I'll read the Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children series again (for the 2nd time).

Idk exactly which one to read again while I save up money to buy some new books.

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Look under the cut to see what meeting your entity is like. Reblog to give a gift to your patron.

The fae: a creature stands before you. Though this street was warm and crowded a few moments ago it is suddenly cold and the people around you look like shadows. The creature begins an antlered shadow with glowing white eyes, but soon its body can be seem, with white blue flesh, and sapphire eyes, and icicles for teeth. What looks like a cloak unfolds from its naked body and you can see massive white wings of a moth. As if it's an act of sacrifice you tell it your true name, a name you didn't even see before, and suddenly you belong to it, for better or worse.

The angel: a radiant entity appears before you. They're bright, like something so hot it would burn you up. But as the light fades, you can see a person in silver armor, perfect yet inhuman like am ancient green statue, their back srouting six wings with blue eyes along them, as the eyes on their head are covered by a mask of two smaller wings. The creature offers their hands and you shake it, as they fly you through the city streets and above the skyscrapers, to the stars above and dimensions beyond, to gods living and dead, across the streets of alien cities and the clouds of dead worlds. And when you return to the earth you can feel something diffrent about you, like there's light in your blood.

The scavenger: below the lights of skyscrapers beyond you, on the dark sands of the beach, you see it crawling twords you. This serpentine creature with countless legs, and a dark black shell, yet a strangely human like face. You think it'll attack or run away, but it just looks at you, egar, and for a momment you stare at eachother. It's legs pass something to eachother and then to you, it's meat but it's shining with all the colors known to the human eye, and a few more. You hold it and it happily looks at you. You take a bite and suddenly you know... you know so very much...

The vampire: she flies down to you on green wings with orange eyespots, but folds them into her back. She looks like a human for a momment, tall and strong, with a black suit over her body, but eyes the color of ruby. For a momment her mouth opens, and it's massive and monstrous, with countless moving parts and fangs. But then it folds back onto something humanoid and she gives you a playful smirk. She cuts her hand and offers you her blood, and when you drink it it tastes so sweet, and makes you feel so good. She hands you the knife and you know to do the same, and when she drinks from your palm it's life the sweetest of kisses.

The djinn: the room wirs around you. If it were not for the fans it would feel like hellfire. For a momment there it darkness, but then the screen before you glows white like smokeless flame. You can sense something inside, something beyond the code. You reach your hand within it, and there's no glass, your hand passess right through until you're in a white void of your own making. You call out, thinking there is nothing at all around you. Yet somehow something calls back, something that knows your name.

The rat king: You see him in an empty subway station. Something dark and distorted, you're not sure if he's man or animal, covered in rags, and singing in the language of the goblins and the orcs. Yet he comes close to you excited. And you can feel his song. He calls for you to come to the train tracks, and let yourself run with the rats and the roaches, where the train will pass over you when it comes, and you'll live forever. When you touch the third rail you don't die, but you'll never be human again.

The lich: the library is strangely bright. Run by skeletons in suits, decorated with gold. There are more books here then you thought were in all the world. There's knowledge here most mortals will never have the change below, all kept safe below the city. You see her, her body doesn't look human, everything has been replaced making her look more like a joining white doll then a being of flesh. Yet she is dead, you can tell that under the porcelain skin she must be dead, she is dead, and there is the tragedy of death in her eyes. You come closer to her, and she places a black rose within your hair...

The demon: You stand in his office and he stands before you, a humanoid being covered in black scales, with red eyes covering his skin. Yet none are on his head, that remains featureless save for two massive horns. Wings on his back nearly surround you. Countless souls line the walls of his office, looking at you, waiting. After you sign your name you give him yours, you can feel it come away for you forever and your eyes grey and your skin pales. But he puts the jar in a special place for you, you're spacial, he can tell there's something about you that he likes.

The mushroom lord: you walk through the darkness of the forest, the furthest from civilization you have ever been. You come upon a part where the trees all seem dead, that even the cryptids won't go near. Mushrooms fill the ground, and white vein like lines are all over the trees. You feel the need to lay down, and you let the moss and the mushrooms and the worms surround you, and let yourself sink into the soil,, and it feels good. It feels so good...

The witch: You can see them in the Cafe next to you, skinny and small, with a sweatshirt over most of their body, and dark glasses over their eyes. They seem powerful though, and though their body looks young they seem ancient, they seem beyond humanity. You talk to them and they tell you things, and secrets, lost gods, things you never knew you didn't know, both beautiful and disturbing. When it's time for them to go they pet your head, and give you their number. You don't know if you should text them, but you have to, you have to see them again, there's something about them that makes you need to know.

The living clothing: you step into it at first, it looked like a puddle yet shining like silver or chrome. But soon it surrounds you, first just your torso, but soon your head, your entire body. But it doesn't feel scary, it feels like you're being held, held by something beyond your understanding. It whispers to you, and you don't know if you should feel like your being eaten alive, or like you're being protected. You can't help but keep walking.

The abyss: the void is before you, blackness beyond blackness, like the color beyond the field of your vision, stands before your eyes. You stare at it, it's nothing yet you're entranced. It stares back...

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Cute cakes appreciation post

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POV: Dr. Laszlo Kreizler is your psychology professor

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OKAY I AM SO HAPPY

I started reading The Angel of Darkness yesterday and IT HAS A MAP (that would have been so useful in the first book). Problem is that it's almost impossible to read, so I looked it up on Google.

AND I FOUND A WEBSITE DEDICATED TO "THE ALIENIST". It has tons of stuff I can't stop going over; News on Caleb Carr, analysis, sumaries, information, EVEN MAPS with the locations of the places mentioned in the books.

It's not official but it's SO GOOD. And here it is!

Actual footage of me after spending an hour on reading everything in there:

(Only thing: I'm having problems subscribing to it, but still can check it though)

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Tomb Raider: Path of the Black Alchemist...

...is bloody amazing!

I just finished reading it this morning (I am the slowest reader on the planet but I devoured this book within two and a half days) and I am exhilarated to the bones while my heart aches, longing for mooooore.

This is hands down the best book I've read this year, and I can not wait to get my hands on the third book (which is coming hopefully by the end of this year, according to Jenni Milwards website!).

Without spoiling any contents, I just want to say: if you have any interest in AoD what so ever, this book is worth picking up for sure.

And if you are, like me, a long time fan of AoD you're in for a treat, love! But be warned: it will leave you breathless and with a hole in your heart in the shape of book three.

Jenni, if you ever read this: from the depths of my heart, thank you! <3

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*For the people asking this ring is available HERE with free shipping

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Marya Hornbacher // Maya Angelou