#the trespasser

[naldibutnice]

The Trespasser (1929) Dir. Edmund Goulding

[brightbeautifulthings]

"You can knock down a genuine belief, if you load up with enough facts that contradict it; but a belief that's built on nothing except who the person wants to be, nothing can crumble that."

— Tana French, The Trespasser

[cressida-jayoungr]

Coeli's Picks: Monochrome, part 2 (Gloria Swanson Edition)

One Dress a Day Challenge

Coeli wrote: "And now for a whole lot of Gloria Swanson, because she might have had the best film wardrobe ever."

In chronological order. (This list includes a couple of reposted images, but @coeli1000 suggested them in the first place.)

Male and Female (1919) / As Lady Mary Lazenby

My American Wife (1922) / As Natalie Chester

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922) / As Betty Bellew

(See previous post here.)

Zaza (1923) / As Zaza

"Dig those painted stockings!" (See previous post here.)

Madame Sans-Gêne (1925) / As Catherine Hübscher

The Trespasser (1929) / As Marion Donnell

Indiscreet (1931) / As Geraldine "Jerry" Trent

Music in the Air (1934) / As Frieda Hotzfelt

[cm-top-10]

C.M. Top 10: Monsters of Horror

A form of monster is always in the eyes of the beholder. To a bird a cat is a monster, but know most humans have been used to being the top cat of nature. That is...until nature decides to have enough & put you on the menu.

So for this 10 features the most fearful & most terrifying monsters & creatures in nature. & those unnatural well...I guess that be your fault there.

Which one do fear the most in nature? You be the judge on that...

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1. The Isle - Hyperendocrin Giganotosaurus

(Hypo Giga)

2. Love Death & Robots - Project Barghest

(the Honey Badger)

3. Pokemon XD - Shadow Lugia

4. Pacific Rim the Black - the Trespasser

(Lucy)

5. Jurassic World - Indoraptor

6. Ben 10 Omniverse - Time Beast

7. Marvel's Midnight Suns- Charlie the Hellhound

8. Turok - T-Rex (Mama Scarface)

9. Sonic Generations - Chaos

10. Horizon Forbidden West - Slitherfang

[shelbycarpenter]

[elenichr]

Year of Lists

July Books

She a long one

I also left this so late, I don't remember much

The Trespasser by Tana French - don't remember anything about this, just that I enjoyed speeding through it. I think Tana French's work has that quality of quiet enjoyment to it. A small break from reality - so a 3*? (that's my goodreads rating anw)

Μαμά by Μαργαρίτα Καραπάνου *4.7/5 - this, I do remember. It's a quick read, much of Karapanou is; none of it is light and this one is darker and more complex than most. It's a melee of the writer's relationship with/memory of her mother. Vignettes, impressions, memories, snippets of a life lived, felt or imagined. Karapanou was a remarkable artist, and boy, could she weave a sentence.

I'm Not Here to Give a Speech by Gabriel García Márquez *4.5/5 - delightful; just a neat little collection of speeches. Isn't it funny how gifted some people are at things they don't really enjoy doing?

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang *5/5 - nothing to see here. Love all around. <3 <3

Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto *3.5/5 - this was yummy. If you find oldish, matter-of-fact writing, noir-type police procedurals with limited but astute action delicious, this is for you.

Girl Goddess Queen by Bea Fitzgerald *4/5 - okay. Hear me out.

*sidenote* This is Lore Olympus in novel form. So much so that I wondered if Bea Fitzgerald wasn't a pen name for Rachel Smythe and vice versa.

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Was it repetitive, occasionally annoyingly so? Yes. Did I think it could have benefitted from better editing? Yes. Did I obsess over it and think about the characters and the slow-burn romance of it all for at least a week? Yes. Did I buy Bea Fitzgerald's new novel a day into publication and can't wait to read it but I'm travelling a lot and didn't want to carry it cause it's huge? Yes. Did it make me hyperfixate on finding the epic romance of the decade - the century even, the book that makes your knees tremble, to no avail? Yes.

I loved this. I loved this so so much, flaws and all.

*sidenote, again* Madeline Miller rewriting Persephone too - would love to read that version

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo - like a 3*. It's not something that sticks but it's readable and you do care when you're reading it. One thing I can say for certain, I was sure I wanted to read more Leigh Bardugo, and I have, since reading this, spent a lot of time on deciding what that'll be. (Six of Crows, probably this Autumn, early Winter)

Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi *3.7/5 - It's a good narrative from a very talented writer/artist, whose work I've admired from the get-go and will continue to consume either til the end, or til the potentially inevitable decline. The .7 purely on talent.

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong - deets on this with the sequel which I read in August - and it's a lot

[vietsoul]

Patrick Knight Trespass, 2001 - Titan Men, dir. Bruce Cam

[hrtiu]

Me until Veil Guard comes out

[rosieofcorona]

a god, once (WIP)

[spitedemon]

i really don’t think it’s “typical dragon age fandom nonsense” for people to be genuinely upset about the world state choices. combat, level design, art direction, gameplay gimmicks, those have all varied across each dragon age game. the one thing that’s remained constant are nods to our previous choices.

i wasn’t expecting my HoF to come riding in on a griffon, but i can’t find a monument dedicated to warden tabris somewhere around the anderfels? lucanis couldn’t have some lines about the time that one arainai boy was stirring up trouble in antiva city? you’re gonna tell me that making a mage the new divine wouldn’t have some impact on nevarra and antiva? on the anderfels, the supposed most devout militant andrastian nation in thedas? you’re saying nobody in the north is paying attention to who rules orlais or ferelden? come on.

[mythalism]

girls when they remember that tevinter nights reveals that

1. solas can kill people in their sleep, large groups of people all at once, including dwarves, by giving them dreams so horrifying they bleed out of their ears and die

2. he has a massive network of spies and agents that do his bidding across all of thedas and speak about him with reverence like a true god. one blesses a fellow fallen elf by saying “the dread wolf guide your soul to peace, brother”

3. solas’s dread wolf form looks like a combination of a pride demon, a wolf, and a dragon, “lupine in appearance but the size of a high dragon, with shaggy spiked hide and six burning eyes like a pride demon” and he can fly around the fade on “wings of fire” that disperse into an army of demons/spirits

4. he shows up in this form to terrorize a group of mortalitasi who were binding spirits for a ritual, and says “YOU MEDDLE PAST YOUR UNDERSTANDING, FOOLISH MORTAL MAGES, AND IN DOING SO, YOU THREATEN ALL CREATION. YOU USE MY IDOL CARELESSLY TO VANDALIZE THE SEA OF DREAMS. NOW FEEL THE PAIN OF WHAT YOU HAVE CREATED. FROM THIS MOMENT, SHOULD YOU EVER BIND A SPIRIT, THEN YOUR LIFE IS MINE.”

[brightbeautifulthings]

"'She told me she loved bookshops. Magic, she said, specially small ones like this; you always felt like you might find the one book you'd been looking for all your life, at the back of some shelf…'"

— Tana French, The Trespasser

[doraingrid]

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a world to save. Again."

Tarot card for one angry Inquisitor, lady Trevelyan

[bemp0]

Portrait of Divine Victoria with Schmooples II

[pani-artz]

Post-Inquisition /Pre-Trespasser loneliness

[death-caller]

Vir shiral ma lasa, bellanaris.

insp.