#the professor and the madman

[isabelleneville]

@perioddramasource: PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK

Day Seven: Free Day ~ Favourite Period Drama Actress - NATALIE DORMER

Selected Filmography:

Casanova - Victoria Donato

The Tudors - Anne Boleyn, Marquess of Pembroke, later, Queen of England

Agatha Christie's Marple - Moira Nicholson

W.E. - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York, later, Queen of England

Rush - Gemma

The Scandalous Lady W - Seymour Worsley, Lady Worsley,

Picnic at the Hanging Rock - Hester Appleyard

The Professor and the Madman - Eliza Merrett

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels - Magda, pictured as one of her aliases Elsa Branson

[iam-sol-emnlyswear]

THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE APPRECIATION IN THE DARK ACADEMIA COMMUNITY FOR THE MOVIE "THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN" ITS SET IN THE LATE 1800S AND FOLLOWS THE COMPANIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO MEN AS THEY WORK TOGETHER TO TRY AND CREATE THE FIRST EDITION OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY AND IT HAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CELLO SOUNDTRACK I'VE EVER HEARD AND THE CINEMATOGRAPHY IS INCREDIBLE

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The Professor and the Madman: Directed by Farhad Safinia. With Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Eddie Marsan, Natalie Dormer. Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

[pablolf]

Film Journal

"The Professor and the Madman" by Farhad Safinia

[emo-batboy]

Things Battinson Totally Did During His First Year of University

Using Unhinged or Odd Things I Also Did as a College Freshman :D

Note: for this list, let’s believe Bruce was living in an (admittedly expensive and swanky) dorm because it is required for first-years, especially those entering at a young age, and Alfred told him he needed to make friends. Also yes I did every single thing on this list. I never claimed to be a role model

Bruce, to his TA: I’m so sorry I’m late to class. I gave blood a few hours ago and almost fainted on the way here, but it won’t happen again.

Signs up for a class called “Age of Dinosaurs” despite it not being required whatsoever and proceeds to work his entire schedule around it

Bruce: Your mental health is super important. If you think you should see the on-campus therapist, go see them. Friend: Fine. I’ll sign up for therapy if you sign up for therapy too. Bruce: Hold on-

Finds a loophole in his housing contract that allows him to get a pet frog, calls him kermit :)

Gets a second frog because Kermit was lonely, names it Constantine after Muppets Most Wanted, then realizes that they’re gay for each other. Wonders if the rainbow-colored rocks he got them triggered anything

Swings dramatically between calling Alfred every single day and ghosting him for weeks, cries when he realizes what he did

“Accidentally” joins the student body council, doesn’t know what he’s doing, gets re-elected anyway

Molds a dragon out of Laffy Taffy instead of doing his work

Bruce: *joins Honors, gets all A’s, takes the max amount of classes, has several minors, overachieves* Also Bruce: I’m a failure.

Breaks into a building after hours to study because NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO SHUT THE FUCK UP AT THE LIBRARY

Bruce: I will not get seasonal depression this year. Bruce: *gets real and seasonal depression that year*

Meticulously schedules his day with a color-coded planner because if he sits down for too long, the thoughts will consume him

Gives a presentation to his rhetoric class on how much he likes Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (it is 20 minutes long)

Successfully allocates funding from the student body council to pay for free feminine products in the dorms OUT OF SPITE because someone said it couldn't be done. fuck you, Andrew

Bruce: It is not an all-nighter if I go to sleep before my first class. Friend: It is 7:30am, the sun is in the sky, and your first class is at 12:30. Bruce: But I am getting sleep.

Refuses to go anywhere without his backpack because what if he needs three notebooks at once

Loses over 20 pounds because ✨stress✨ and scares the shit out of Alfred when he comes home for Thanksgiving

Argues with his TA over the one (1) question he got wrong on his Dinosaur exam

Bruce, calling Alfred: Hello father figure. How do I do taxes? Do I have to do them myself? Also, I think I’m having a panic attack.

Joins in on a charity arts-and-crafts project that gives kids books with matching activities made by volunteers, proceeds to commandeer the project because “it’s not color-blind friendly” and rewrites the instructions for everyone

Makes a murder wall

Goes to one (1) sports game and proceeds to leave in the first ten minutes because it’s way too loud wtf is wrong with people

Professor, addressing the lecture hall: I dare you to write an essay about these two sentences. Bruce: *writes an essay about six words, gets a 100, never even read the book*

Crawls into the ceiling for some alone time

Ghosts someone after a date because he’s too scared to tell them he didn’t know it was a date in the first place and now he feels bad

Classmate: How tf does he walk across campus that fast? I go in the same direction he does on my bike, and he’s always ahead of me. Bruce: *is gay sprinting to Dinosaur class*

Refuses to let others use his Favorite Pen TM

Constantly gets mistaken for a Grad Student because he is “so wise and mature” (bestie, that’s the autism)

Alfred: *casually mentions he got into a car accident through text* Bruce: *replies with a meme while hyperventilating because he doesn’t know what to do with that information??!*

Wears a suit to one of his finals

Regularly eats non-organic food for the first time in his life, proceeds to learn about several allergies Alfred forgot to mention he has

Writes “What is a Hot Pocket?” in calligraphy and proceeds to laugh his ass off alone in his dorm because he is so exhausted he’s reached the point of delusion

Locks himself out of his dorm right before class, frantically asks the floor group chat if someone can help, proceeds to tell the nice gay man on the floor who saved him “I love you” because his social skills have hit rock bottom

Makes a little music album display next to his desk for his favorite band (Nirvana) His friends call it a shrine, and they are technically correct

Has a blacklist of people he refuses to interact with because Reasons

Counselor: What do you want to do when you graduate? Bruce: *gestures vaguely*

Refuses to take the bus because there are people in there and he doesn’t like those

Loses one of his frogs, how tf did he do that, they’re fully aquatic, oh fuck, this is probably why they got rid of that loophole a year later because unbeknownst to Bruce, he accidentally started a frog revolution in the dorms, btw he SWEARS he did not mean to do that

Has two trash cans in his room: one for the Good Garbage, and one for the Bad Garbage. Only Bruce knows which is which

Bruce: *writes a creative piece about a ship’s final thoughts as it sinks, bringing its passengers down with it* TA: Absolutely lovely, Bruce, but are you okay?

Goes on Night Walks, keeps himself safe by maintaining a level 12 resting bitch face at all times

Earns the nickname “8th floor cryptid” after pacing the halls at 3am when it’s too cold for Night Walks (honestly tho how tf didn’t he get the nickname earlier?)

Bruce: Do you think a depressed person could do this? Bruce: *has a manic episode*

Okay that's all love you BYE

[creativewildflowers]

VENOMOUS?? IN THIS GRAND YEAR OF 2024????????

MORE LIKELY THAN YOU THINK.

uh, hi tumblr

hi OK K.O. tumblr :]

I'm alive kinda!!

[cheezitboss]

please ignore the horrific quality but I had a vision late last night. please tell me you see my point

[inkymers007]

PEOPLE OF POKEMON HORIZONS!

I NEED TO KNOW SOMETHING!

Can Friede be considered a dilf?

The only reason I asked, is because I've been watching the english dub of Horizons just for comparisons. And Friede's dub is... Kinda fatherly in a sense. It has a very dad like voice and it brought up this question and I need answers. It doesn't help that he and Roy have a father son relationship going on and it's sort of the same way with Liko. Especially in episode 11 and 12 where he worries about them. So uh.... help!??!

[misteria247]

I finally finished Puppet History.

Holy shit.

[lily-valley-hyperfixates]

Me with the puppet history finale

[iam-sol-emnlyswear]

I hear 0:48 of the Professor and the Madman theme and suddenly I'm in Oxford and there's a hazy brown filter over everything and its drizzling outside and I'm dressed in a dark turtleneck with dress pants and mary janes with a black trenchcoat and I'm studying the works of Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde

[notsocharmingmagician]

It’s Waddle Wednesday

[dontbesuchascaredykai]

happy 10th birthday to cobra larvae in his spine 🥳

[caesarsaladinn]

one of these days I'm gonna mix up the pleasure principle and the power principle and make a complete ass of myself in front of my ancient and very acerbic professor

[pettyprocrastination]

70 PAGES BAYYYYBEEEEE

SEVENTY PAGES DONE AND SUBMITTED THANKS TO YOUR AMAZING BRAIN AND SO MANY MORE

[akoiromanticstudent]

two years since graduation

The Madman - kept a little in touch by being Facebook friends, but he eventually quit fb and disappeared [good for him!] [I did indeed confirm he didn't block me at least...] and at some point, he divorced, and got a new lady who seems really sweet.

The Conductor - only encountered once - a friend of mine got married! [She was someone who was basically on the same page with me, crushing on both The Conductor and The Historian especially...] The Conductor was a guest there and we got the chance to catch up and he was SO sweet as always 🥺 Absolutely precious darling lovely angelic man. And there I got the news he quit, he wanted to contribute to society more directly, I was shocked, he was such a highlight of the university and an amazing conductor, and I hope it wasn't because he was mistreated or anything 🥺 🥺 🥺

The Dean - of the few times I managed to sweep into the music building again, I saw The Dean a surprising number of times, and every time he seemed just as delighted to see me. I'll never forget how incredible his hugs were. [Another post should be made about graduation day - that is, the actual ceremony in May 2021]

The Librarian - oh my other sweet darling, we only occasionally chatted but we DID get the chance to chat and have lovely conversation and his son is doing well but he still has those sweet, sad eyes...

The Russian - oh man, my opinion of this man has dipped a tiny bit, but alas... only because, perhaps, as brilliant as he was, he was not 100% of what I needed in my musical journey. I started streaming since I stopped taking lessons and my musical development has skyrocketed, in styles, technique, expression... the fact that I don't have to memorize anymore enabling me to literally play 80x more music than I did before... well, let's just say, it was time for us to separate, and that's okay.

The Historian - well, this little rascal deserves his own post...