#zola blake.

[bluboi-365]

Gossip Girl (2007 / 2021)

[ruthplaysthesims]

In the Urban Homage Outfits

ft the following sims

Amani Grant & Tyson Blackwell

Bianca & Blake Simmons

Alex Harper & Zola Masumbe

Anthony Hackett & Simone Brooks (Original sims by browniethegoat on the gallery)

@ebonixsims you really ATE this kit up. I'm so happy for you!!

[talesofpassingtime]

Essential Readings for a Serious Writer

(revised)

Literature is a dialogue between story-tellers that has gone on for about six thousand years. Unless an author knows the conversation thus far, it is nearly impossible for that poorly read author to contribute anything meaningful to the dialogue. Serious writing requires serious reading. All great authors have been great readers.

Pre-19th Century

Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey

Sophocles, works

Aeschylus, works

Euripides, works

Virgil, The Aeneid

Boccaccio, The Decameron

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Cressida

1001 Nights

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Cervantes, Don Quixote

Shakespeare

King James Bible

Spencer, The Fairie Queen

Milton, Paradise Lost, Paradise Found, Samson Agonistes

19th Century

Goethe, Faust, Sorrows of Young Werther

British Poets - Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Browning, Tennyson, Yeats

Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

Gogol, Dead Souls

Turgenyev, Fathers and Sons

Dostoevsky, works

Tolstoy, works

Hardy, works

Dickens, works

Galdos, Fortunata & Jacinta

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot), Works

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Jane Austin, works

Melville, works

Hawthorne, works

Poe, works

Stoker, Dracula

Hugo, works

Dumas, works

Zola, works

Balzac, works

Flaubert, works

Scott, works

20th Century

Woolf, works

Joyce, works

Lawrence, works

Hardy, works

Proust, La Recherche de la Temps Perdu

Musil, Man without Qualities, Young Torless

Mann, works

Boll, works

Nabokov, works

TS Eliot, works

Martin Amis, works

Gaddis, works

Pynchon, works

Durrell, works

Byatt, works

Burroughs, works

Faulkner, works

Hemingway, works

Fitzgerald, works

O'Neill, works

Anouilh, works

Grass, works

Garcia Marquez, works

Chekov, works

Ibsen, works

Shaw, works

Shepard, works

Fante, works

Maugham, works

Delillo, works

McElroy, Women and Men

Kundera, works

Anderson, Winesburg Ohio

Henry Miller, works

Barnes, works

Broch, works

Nadas, works

Genet, works

Gide, works

Tennessee Williams, works

Bellow, works

A few words of advice:

Reading chronologically makes later allusions to earlier works available. Know your Homer, your Aeschylus, your Virgil. Lots of things won’t make sense at all if you don’t.

Reading all the important works of literature is the work of a lifetime, so don’t fret about how few you’ve read. What matters most is what you read next, because nothing will influence your writing more than what you are currently reading. 

Reading is writing.

Memorize Shakespeare, the plays, the sonnets, the poems. You won’t regret a word. Nothing is more important to a writer’s education than Shakespeare.

I am only including works and authors I have read in this list. It will continue to evolve as I continue to read. I’m sure there are many thousands of important authors still unlisted. As well, sometimes we learn the best lessons from terrible writers. Reading is too important to only read well.

[boldlycrookedsalad]

Literary Canon (from kissgrammar)

The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version [At a minimum, the books of Genesis, Exodus, Job, Psalms, from the Old Testament; Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Apocalypse from the New.] Whether or not you are Christian is irrelevant. The civilization in which we live is based on and permeated by the ideas and values expressed in this book. Understanding our civilization, the world in which we live, is probably impossible without having read -- and thought about -- at least the most famous books in the Bible. Historically, the King James Version is considered the most artistic, and thus has probably had the most literary influence.

Homer, The Iliad

Homer, The Odyssey

Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex)

Sophocles, Antigone

Plato, The Republic, especially "The Myth of the Cave"

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Saint Augustine, The Confessions

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Giambattista Vico, Principles of a New Science

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Romeo and Juliet

King Lear

Hamlet

Othello

Macbeth

John Donne, "Holy Sonnet XIV"

John Donne, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"

Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"

John Milton, Paradise Lost

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

A Modest Proposal

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Michel de Montaigne, Essays, especially "Of Experience"

Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

Moliere, The Misanthrope

Blaise Pascal, Pensees

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

Voltaire, Candide

Erasmus, In Praise of Folly

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Parts One & Two

Honore de Balzac, Old Goriot (also translated as Pere Goriot)

Stendhal, The Red and the Black

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Emile Zola, Germinal

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

William Blake

William Wordsworth

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Lord Byron, Don Juan

John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

A Tale Of Two Cities

Hard Times

A Christmas Carol

Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Francis Thompson, "The Hound of Heaven"

Samuel Butler, Erewhon

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

George Eliot- Silas Marner

Middlemarch

Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

The Will To Power

The Birth of Tragedy

On the Genealogy of Morals

Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin

The Bronze Horseman

Nikolai Gogol -The Overcoat

Dead Souls

Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

Fyodor Dostoevsky -Notes From the Underground

Crime and Punishment

Leo Tolstoy -The Death of Ivan Ilych

War and Peace

Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

Emily Dickinson - "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"

"The Tint I Cannot Take"

"There's a Certain Slant of Light"

Walt Whitman  - "Song of Myself"

"The Sleepers"

"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

"As I Ebbed With The Ocean of Life"

"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd"

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown

The Scarlet Letter

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Edgar Allen Poe - "The Raven"

The Cask of Amontillado

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Kate Chopin -The Story of An Hour

The Awakening

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

Henry James

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Luigi Pirandello

[wishingforatypewriter]

Tag Game

Thanks @linnorabeifong and @chiefbeifongcanrailme for tagging me!

Last song: Daughter by Beyonce. This song may or may not have inspired a subplot around my oc Zola Beifong when she's all grown up.

Last Book: Iris Kelly Doesn't Date by Ashley Herring Blake. This book called me out, honestly. And it was a fun vacation read.

Last Movie: Um...it's been a while, but I want to say Howl's Moving Castle. That's got to be one of my most rewatched movies.

Last TV Show: The Apothecary Diaries. I loved it! 10/10, no notes.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: All three! Right now, I'm probably leaning towards sweets, though.

Relationship status: Single.

Last thing I googled: Historical tea houses (for a fic).

Current obsession(s): Romance anime, skincare, tequila.

Looking Forward: Hopefully getting some writing done this weekend!

Tagging anyone who wants to participate!

[macaronis-telegraph]

23 books for 2023

As follows are 23 books I think I'd like to get to this year. This list pretty much just the unread books I already have sitting on my shelves, although there's a few on there that I don't own yet but would like to... This list also does not include the two books I'm currently reading. In no particular order except for alphabetical.

The Absolutist, John Boyne

Address Unknown, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Alf, Bruno Vogel

At Night All Blood is Black, David Diop

Bertram Cope’s Year, Henry Blake Fuller

Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata

Germinal, Émile Zola

The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell

Hell’s Foundations, Geoffrey Moorhouse

The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing, Mary Paulson-Ellis

In Parenthesis, David Jones

Love, Tommy, Andrew Roberts

The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood

The Military Orchid, Jocelyn Brooke

Nevada, Imogen Binnie

Our Lady of the Flowers, Jean Genet

A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit

The Road Back, Erich Maria Remarque

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Emily Skidmore

The Watch that Ends the Night, Allan Wolf

Let me know if there's anything on here you think I should get to first! Hopefully I can return to this in a year's time and say I've read all of these.

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Scottish actress  Joanna Vanderham, who was born on 17th October 1990.

Born Joanna Rosie-Le Van Der Ham in Perth and brought up in nearby Scone. Her father Tom, a businessman, and mother, Jill Belch, a professor of cardiovascular research at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, her parents split up when she was eleven, Joanna has two sisters and a brother,  er eldest sister and brother are also doctors.

Joanna  joined the local drama club aged nine. She attended school in Dundee where she read six Shakespeare plays .Othello was her favourite and she would always have her hand up to take a part. She did Scottish Highers in: English, Drama and History before being accepted at 17 for The Royal Welsh College in Cardiff.

In her second year she played Cathy in The Runaway, a six part serial for Sky TV, with in my opinion, a stellar cast that included, Ken Stott, Alan Cumming Keith Allen and Jack O'Connell . Recording this meant missing two terms when she was filming for three months in South Africa but the college graded her work from her film performances, giving her a first.

Having graduated she was immediately recruited for the central role of Denise in The Paradise, an eight part series for BBC based loosely on the Emile Zola novel Au Bonheur des Dames. She then filmed The Go-Between a BBC TV movie, in which she plays the young Marian, with Vanessa Redgrave playing the older version of her character.

She also appears in the film What Maisie Knew with Alexander Skarsgård and Julianne Moore, and as Pamela in the BBC drama Dancing on the Edge, The  Mini Series banished and  One of Us , a Netflix original set in Scotland, on which Joanna commented she loved filming “the puppies on the farm helped you forget how cold Scotland is”

Joanna is probably most famous for the role of Penelope Blake in the acclaimed Cinemax series, Warrior and in the American superhero television series Legends of Tomorrow as Atropos.

Season 2 of the Irvine Welsh based series Crime is being filmed at present, Joanna plays police office Amanda Drummond. Joanna was last  on our screens in the excellent drama Control Room, set in Glasgow

Joanna Vanderham has been in many plays around the country, starring in some for the Royal Shakespeare Company and received a Commendation at the 2016 Ian Charleson Awards for her role as Queen Anne in Richard III at the Almeida Theatre.

[ulkaralakbarova]

Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Hunter Conrad: Haley Bennett Richie Conrad: Austin Stowell Katherine Conrad: Elizabeth Marvel Michael Conrad: David Rasche Erwin William: Denis O’Hare Lucy: Luna Lauren Velez Alice: Zabryna Guevara Luay: Laith Nakli Aaron: Babak Tafti Bev: Nicole Kang Nurse: Myra Lucretia Taylor Dr. Santos: Maya Days Jill: Alyssa Bresnahan Nim: Olivia Perez Lillian: Kristi Kirk Dr. Reyes: Elise Santora Film Crew: Director: Carlo Mirabella-Davis Editor: Joe Murphy Director of Photography: Katelin Arizmendi Assistant Location Manager: Lauren Andrade Associate Producer: Gregory Horoupian Producer: Mynette Louie Producer: Frédéric Fiore Co-Executive Producer: Katy Drake Bettner Associate Producer: Adam Kersh Background Casting Director: Olivia Crist Producer: Mollye Asher Producer: Carole Baraton Assistant Editor: Henry Butash Original Music Composer: Nathan Halpern Colorist: Sam Daley Visual Effects Supervisor: Alex Noble Foley Artist: Leslie Bloome Foley Mixer: Ryan Collison Foley Artist: Joanna Fang Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Kurihara First Assistant Director: Jake Martin Makeup Department Head: Kai Stamps Hair Department Head: Meagan Coyle Costume Design: Liene Dobrāja Production Design: Erin Magill Executive Producer: Haley Bennett Executive Producer: Joe Wright Executive Producer: Constantin Briest Executive Producer: Yohann Comte Executive Producer: Pierre Mazars Executive Producer: Eric Tavitian Executive Producer: Sam Bisbee Co-Executive Producer: David Boies III Co-Executive Producer: David Stone Co-Executive Producer: Julie Parker Benello Casting: Allison Twardziak Music Supervisor: Joe Rudge Line Producer: Javier Gonzalez Second Assistant Director: Brian Johanson Still Photographer: Anna Kooris Gaffer: Lorenzo Pace Leadman: Jake Harms Set Decoration: Frank Baran Property Master: Luke Carr Script Supervisor: Jodi Domanic Special Effects Supervisor: Pete Gerner First Assistant Camera: Vincent Weiler Second Assistant Camera: Emma Penrose Digital Imaging Technician: Jake Westphal Production Sound Mixer: Dan Bricker Boom Operator: Finn Pfeffer Additional Production Sound Mixer: Viktor Weiszhaupt Assistant Costume Designer: Celeste Montalvo Best Boy Electric: Anna Cocuzzo Key Grip: Alexander Prokos Best Boy Grip: Nick Neary Hairstylist: Kristin Nawrocki Location Manager: Lauren B. Taylor Casting Associate: Juliet Axon Production Manager: Maggie Ambrose Production Accountant: Jay Britton Production Accountant: Margret P. Dunlap Assistant Editor: Susannah Kalb ADR Recordist: Chris White Foley Editor: Nick Seaman Foley Editor: Laura Heinzinger Music Coordinator: Blake Jessee Additional Music Supervisor: Laura Katz Compositing Artist: Dulany Foster IV Set Dresser: Linnea Crabtree Art Department Assistant: Tommy Mitchell Art Department Assistant: Dan Normile Art Department Assistant: Bruno Vernaschi-Berman Art Department Assistant: Michael Allegro Script Supervisor: Abe Kemmis Costumer: Kelsey Sasportas Makeup Artist: Rosie Sklar Makeup Artist: Tracey Hussey Makeup & Hair: Lia Parks Second Second Assistant Director: Mike Moran Craft Service: Zola Zimmerman Craft Service: Mauricio Villalobos Craft Service: Joe Facey Post Production Supervisor: Javian Ashton Le Additional Music: Chris Ruggiero Thanks: Stewart Thorndike Movie Reviews: liena: I sadly missed the chance to watch Swallow on the theatre when it hit a film festival in İstanbul while I was there, but I’ve been keeping an eye on this movie since it wrapped and I talked non-stop about how much I wanted to be able to see it. Now that I finally saw it on VOD, I heard there is a possibility for it to re-run in cinemas in Turkey soon and I will certainly go see it again. This film made me sick, I hated every scene while it rolled but at the same time I fell in love with it. So well acted, extremely pretty to...

[astridofraftel]

reading challenge #11 (wrap-up)

Just finished: The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan

Currently reading: The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

Next on schedule: The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

I just wanted to add for myself a little conclusion to the reading challenge I did last year! I went back to university, so I had a lot less time and motivation to read for the past six months. Because of that, I didn't achieve my goals in the end, but that's alright, I'm still very proud of all the dusting-off I did! My TBR pile is much more manageable now, so I will not be keeping up with this challenge in 2024 (I barely read anything not Percy Jackson-related since January, anyway).

So, if anyone is interested in random lists of books, in 2023 I checked off my program:

(FR) Le Prieuré de l'Oranger (The Priory of the Orange Tree) by Samantha Shannon

(FR) La voleuse de livres (The Book Thief) by Markus Zusak

(FR) L'École des femmes + Le Misanthrope by Molière

(EN) Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang

(EN) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

(EN) Daughter of Smoke and Bone + Days of Blood and Starlight + Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor

(FR) Le Chien des Baskerville (The Hound of the Baskervilles) by Arthur Conan Doyle

(FR) Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola

(FR) Le symbole perdu (The Lost Symbol) by Dan Brown

(FR) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

(FR) Il était une fois dans le Nord (Once Upon A Time In The North) by Philip Pullman

(FR) Le Roi Lear (King Lear) by William Shakespeare

(EN) The Conqueror’s Saga (And I Darken + Now I Rise + Bright We Burn) by Kiersten White

(FR) Le Flambeau + Témoin à charge by Agatha Christie

(FR) Boudicca by Jean-Laurent Del Socorro

(FR) Fantômes et kimonos by Kidō Okamoto

(FR) Dans l'ombre de Paris by Morgan of Glencoe

For a total of 23 books out of my goal of 30 that I had owned for years and never read!

Which means that my TBR pile now amounts to these 12 books (I acquired the last 4 last year so they were not included in my program):

(FR) L'Ultime Expérience by Bruce Benamran

(FR) Cinna by Corneille

(FR) Othello by Shakespeare

(EN) Three Dark Crowns (re-read) + One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake

(EN) Iskari, the Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli

(EN) The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen

(FR) Le complot des corbeaux by Ariel Holzl

(FR) La mythologie viking (North Mythology) by Neil Gaiman

(FR) La métamorphose by Franz Kafka

(EN) A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

(EN) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In addition to all that, although disregarding anything fanfictitious, last year...

(and because I barely have any self-control when it comes to books)

...I also read these, which were not initially included in my program:

(EN) And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

(EN) Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

(FR) Le château de Hurle (Howl’s moving castle) by Diana Wynne Jones

(EN) The Princess Diaries vol. 1 by Meg Cabot

(EN) Strange the dreamer + Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

(EN) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

(EN) Divergent vol. 1 by Veronica Roth

(EN) Legendborn + Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn

(FR) Comme un vol d'étourneaux by Giorgio Parisi

(FR) Le meilleur des mondes (Brave New World) by Aldous Huxley

(EN) I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

(EN) Crooked House by Agatha Christie

(EN) Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

(FR) La guerre des clans (Warriors) - cycle I vol. 1-6 by Erin Hunter

(EN) Tallstar’s Revenge by Erin Hunter

(FR) Le mystère de Listerdale by Agatha Christie

After all these gruesome lists, I can finally put to rest my 2023 reading challenge. Maybe one day I'll renew it, but I probably won't have the time nor the energy to schedule my readings so seriously for the next two years. It's been very fun though, also it had been the first year in quite some time that I read that much in French, and I think it did me good.

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[sauvesparlekong]

🎨 « Il y a du Rembrandt dans Shakespeare, et du Corrège en Michelet, et du Delacroix dans Hugo, et puis il y a du Rembrandt dans l’Évangile ou de l’Évangile dans Rembrandt » Vincent Van Gogh (lettre 155 à son frère Théo) Considérées comme un chef-d'œuvre de la littérature picturale au même titre que le Journal de Delacroix, ces lettres montrent la culture littéraire et picturale remarquable de Vincent Van Gogh et ses talents linguistiques. Elles sont écrites dans un style précis, souvent lyrique et imagé. Elles reflètent à la fois une vision du monde qui évolue au long de sa vie, entre mysticisme religieux et politique (christianisme social), ainsi que la tragédie solitaire de l'existence de leur auteur. Pour Pascal Bonafoux, « Vincent, peint, peint. Il peint comme il écrit. Il écrit comme il peint ». Fourmillant de détails, cette correspondance apporte des informations irremplaçables, non seulement sur la dynamique de création de Vincent Van Gogh lui-même, mais aussi sur le monde artistique de l'époque. Vincent Van Gogh s'y montre lecteur avide des écrivains de son époque, français (Flaubert, Hugo, Maupassant, Michelet, Zola), anglais (Shakespeare, Dickens, George Eliot) ou russes (Tolstoï, Tourgueniev), aussi bien que de la Bible, qu'il commente. Il copie de nombreux poèmes, qu'il envoie ou traduit à sa famille. Il évoque et critique la peinture de son époque : Blake, Corot, Degas, Delacroix, Géricault, Meissonnier, Millet, Monet, Rembrandt, Renoir, Russel, Toulouse-Lautrec, les estampes japonaises... Avec une érudition étonnante, les lettres de Van Gogh distillent ses convictions esthétiques, à la croisée de sa passion pour la littérature et de sa foi en la peinture[17] : « Il paraît que dans le livre Ma religion [archive], Tolstoï insinue que quoi qu’il soit d’une révolution violente, il y aura aussi une révolution intime et secrète dans les gens d’où renaîtra une religion nouvelle ou plutôt quelque chose de tout neuf qui n’aura pas de nom, mais qui aura le même effet de consoler, de rendre la vie possible qu’autrefois avait la religion chrétienne. » wiki #sauvespourlebac #sauvesparlekong #sauvepourlebac #sauvesparlapoesie #alchimieduverbe (à Van Gogh Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClmM66yjIH2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dewgossip]

Zola can’t even jump rope

What kind of person doesn’t jump rope? I might throw out a hip if I tried it, but at least I know how to double dutch! 

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

20 Most Anticipated of 2020 Part 2: 11-20

20 films directed by women that will debut in 2020. 

Part I HERE

On the Rocks dir. Sofia Coppola

Coppola has sort of fallen out of vogue recently and I’ll admit it’s been quite a while since I fully connected with one of her films. But she remains one of the most imitable and influential living directors. On the Rocks seems to play to what I believe are Coppola’s strengths. The film follows a new mother (played by Rashida Jones) reconnecting with her elderly playboy father (played by Coppola muse Bill Murray).  

Passing dir. Rebecca Hall

British actress Hall is getting behind the camera for the first time with Passing, an adaptation of a Nella Larsen novel about two African-American light skinned childhood friends who reconnect as adults when one is passing as white and the other has chosen to embrace life as a black woman. Hall herself has black American heritage (her maternal grandfather was an American black man who passed for white) so the material is personal for her. She’s also chosen two incredible actresses to play the friends: Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.

The Rhythm Section dir. Reed Morano

After the beautiful work Morano did with her low budget scifi film I Think We’re Alone Now I've been eagerly anticipating Morano’s next work. TRS was supposed to come out last year but was delayed after star Blake Lively severely injured her hand. I thought the movie might be cancelled for good but Morano and her team persevered. The movie, about a woman seeking revenge after her family is murdered is finally complete! Though it’s being dumped in early January I’m sure that Morano has delivered something that will be at the very least, a visual feast. 

The Story of My Wife dir. Ildikó Enyedi

I was so thoroughly in love with Enyedi’s last film On Body and Soul that I would have watched whatever she chose to do next. The Hungarian director has chosen to adapt a novel about a sea captain who makes a bet with his friend that he will marry the next woman to walk into a cafe and then spends the rest of his life jealously miserable and certain that his beautiful wife is cheating on him. French actress Léa Seydoux plays the wife!

The Souvenir Part II dir. Joanna Hogg

I always find myself reluctant to recommend Hogg films because they are the very definition of rich white people problems (you know, incredibly wealthy people repressing their issues with each other and looking distressed as they wander around beautiful landscapes and rooms filled with a sense of malaise)  yet I really adore her films. The Souvenir was a semi-autobiographical look at a wealthy young woman’s birth as an artist and how a toxic relationship with an older junkie warped her world (in a restrained way of course). The first part ended on a particularly devastating note and I imagine part II will pick up from there. I had a discussion with someone who called the first film navel gazing and while I can’t quite disagree I will easily sign up for two and a half more hours to gaze at that particular navel again.

The Titane dir. Julia Ducournau

I’m terrified of horror so I had to wince my way through Ducournau’s directorial debut, but she’s such a stunning director that I am very much looking forward to her next film. The Titane has Ducournau sticking to her horror roots with the story of a child who was kidnapped returning to his family as an adult and the slew of murders that accompany his mysterious reappearance. Sounds gruesome.

The Turning dir. Floria Sigismondi

A theme of 2020 seems to be long delayed projects and directors finally putting out more work. Sigismondi cut her teeth as a music video director, made the musical biopic The Runaways which was released in 2010 and then didn’t make another feature film until now. The Turning is a modern adaptation of Henry James’ horror novella The Turning of the Screw about a nanny assigned to care for two children under mysterious circumstances.  Mackenzie Davis will be playing the nanny in this version with Finn Wolfhard and Brooklynn Prince playing her creepy charges.

Violet dir. Justine Bateman

I’ve been tracking this ever since it was announced and was losing hope that it would ever be made. Should have kept the faith! Actress turned director Justine Bateman makes her feature film debut with the story of a successful film executive who learns that the voice in her head guiding her decisions has been lying to her- about everything.

Wonder Woman 1984 dir. Patty Jenkins

She’s back baby! I was so utterly charmed by the 2017 film adaptation of Wonder Woman and it’s exciting to see that in the ashes of the DC cinematic universe with its ever rotating cast of Jokers and Batmans, Wonder Woman has prevailed. Not only is Jenkins back as director, but lengthy negotiations resulted in her getting the biggest payday for a woman director in Hollywood (a rumoured $10 million!) and also coming onboard as a producer and writer meaning she’ll have even more power to fully execute her vision. Bring on the shoulder pads, the track suits, the colour! Bring on the anti-gun propaganda! Bring on the matriarchy!

Zola dir. Janicza Bravo

This was on my list of most anticipated films last year when I was optimistic it would get made right away. Well now it’s finally here. Bravo presents Zola, the film based on the viral tweets from a stripper about how she went to Florida with an acquaintance and got dragged into the world of sex work and violence. This has potential to be amazing and I’m rooting for Bravo and the cast which includes the underrated Taylour Paige as Zola and Riley Keough as her friend.  

[hexblooded]

grey’s anatomy meme: nine episodes

¬The sound of Silence⌐

In group settings, men are 75% more likely to speak up than women. And when a woman does speak up, it's statistically probable her male counterparts will either interrupt her or speak over her. It's not because they're rude. It's science. The female voice is scientifically proven to be more difficult for a male brain to register. What does this mean? It means in this world, where men are bigger, stronger, faster, if you're not ready to fight, the silence will kill you. Don't let fear keep you quiet. You have a voice. So use it. Speak up. Raise your hands. Shout your answers. Make yourself heard. Whatever it takes. Just find your voice. And when you do... Fill the damn silence.

[jazy3]

Thoughts on Grey’s Anatomy Episode: 14X21 – Part 2

Now we come to the episode’s BIG GIANT GAPPING HOLE OF A PLOT HOLE! Sofia and Zola’s friendship and Arizona and Meredith’s friendship. Big Sigh. They totally let us down on this one. It practically writes itself for goodness sakes! UGH!

In this episode we learn that Sofia’s hating school. My first guess is that she likes her teacher back in New York better. That’s understandable, but it doesn't explain why Sofia was happy living in Seattle, where she’d lived for her whole life, for six seasons and now suddenly wants to go back to living in New York, after she only lived there for a year with Callie and Penny after she asked specifically to be moved back to Seattle. I’m also really upset that with both Sofia and Zola living back in Seattle we haven’t gotten a passing reference to a play date from Meredith or Arizona or a scene with the two of them in it. 

They’ve referenced Sofia having play dates with other kids, but not Zola. I also thinks it’s strange that there hasn’t been any Ellis and Harriet play dates mentioned. They’d be around the same age and I think there’s a lot of really great potential here for some Jackson and Meredith and April and Meredith scenes. I know there are lots of rules around child actors so I understand that they can’t have them around all the time, but they could do scenes talking about the kids between these characters too.

I did like the storyline with Arizona first thinking Carina didn’t like kids and then realizing that Carina did like kids, but she disagreed with Arizona’s parenting which to be honest was not great in this episode. Carina has a very good point. Being a supportive and comforting parent is good. Coddling one’s child is not. And using the fact that Sofia’s Dad Mark and her would have been mom Lexie died and her Moms Callie and Arizona got divorced and then Callie and her new partner Penny, Sofia’s new Step-Mom, moved to New York, while Arizona stayed in Seattle and Sofia has to move back and forth is not okay. 

Sofia is a well loved child with a great family. Pretending like she’s been so hard done by when she’s being loved and cared for by a large family of wealthy surgeons isn’t doing her any favours. I like that Carina called her on that and pointed out that her parents divorced too except there was an ocean between her, her parents, and her brother and she turned out great and that her brother who was coddled is not doing as great as she is and she wasn’t coddled.

Also Arizona and Carina’s conversation seems to suggest that Callie and Penny are stricter and better parents. Maybe that’s why Sofia’s not liking Seattle? She asked to move back to get away from all the rules and order and now it’s not working out. Their conversation also implies that Carina has never met Sofia. Which is nuts. 

Her and Arizona are in a committed relationship and they’ve never met. DeLuca has met Sofia, but not Carina? What the hell? So how does that work if they end up moving to New York? Arizona comes home introduces Carina and tells Sofia that she’s moving in and that they are all moving to New York? Will she even get to say goodbye to Zola and all the other kids and her family in Seattle? This is just stupid.  

And then when Arizona goes to talk to Owen about Sofia after she checks over Leo he invites her to have Sofia come over and play with Leo. Okay so Sofia is having a play date with Leo, but Arizona isn’t talking to Meredith about having a play date with her best friend Zola? WTF? If she’s sad set up a girls day for the two of them! Jeez! This storyline rights itself. Come on! So angry right now. Or how about Bailey or Ellis or Harriet or heck even get Tuck to babysit her! These are her persons, cousins, and companions that she’s been around her whole effing life! 

Why would the solution to her hating her school in Seattle be for her to play with a baby she’s never met that Owen may not get to keep? Why doesn't she just talk to her best friend Zola? Or why doesn’t Arizona go to Meredith for parenting advice? She’s got three kids! Owen’s never been a Dad and he’s abused five separate women in his life knowingly and tried to force both Cristina and Amelia to have kids with him, became angry and shamed them for being good aunts (and in Cristina’s case Godmother) to Meredith’s kids, and advocating for them to have children that would suffer the same abuse and neglect that Meredith did, and he knew that, because he feels that his having a child is more important than anything that anyone else wants. So yeah she goes to that asshole for parenting advice.

So then we finally get a Meredith and Arizona scene and they are talking about DeLuca? Not Sofia? WTF? I get that the scene with Carina and DeLuca was funny, but it also seemed unnecessary. Are you seriously telling me that Meredith didn’t think to go to DeLuca’s no nonsense sister when he wouldn’t get off her couch? When Meredith ran to catch up with Arizona I thought finally we were going to get the scene we’d been hoping for. I hoped Arizona might be suggesting that she bring Sofia over to have a heart to heart with DeLuca and then go play with Zola. But no. This episode needed a Meredith and Arizona scene and a Zola and Sofia scene so badly and the fact that we didn’t get one is ridiculous.

Part 1: https://jazy3.tumblr.com/post/173401237132/thoughts-on-greys-anatomy-episode-14x21-part-1

[howlingday]

Yang seeing the barmaid (Tifa) that gave her a run for her money, only for her to find out that she's Jaune's mom.

"So what's so great about this place?" Yang asked, leaning on her elbow.

She and her team were dragged here by Jaune the second he heard it was open. Vomit Boy visibly bristled at the comment.

"It's rustic." He huffed. "It's supposed to let people experience a country bar aesthetic without leaving the city."

"Sounds boring." Yang yawned. Jaune furrowed his brow. "What, are we 'sposed to start square dancin' soon as the hootenanny starts?" She feigned a spit to her side, making Weiss reel in disgust.

"I'm going to the bathroom." Jaune said, stepping past his team.

"Later!" Yang waved him off, looking at the menu one more time. Yup, same ol' boring steaks. She looked around, studying the unappealing, yet strangely bizarre environment.

She expected the place to be full of old fashioned cowboy aesthetic junk, which it was, but was surprised to find a bunch of other stuff on the wall, too. A stuffed Zola head above the bar, a couple of tickets to Gold Saucer framed and hung up by the bathroom, and a staff of some kind behind the bar, where the owner was serving drinks.

Most bizarre to Yang was the owner was smokin' hot, too! Yang actually felt a little envy looking at the older woman rocking black jean shorts and suspenders. The white T-shirt did nothing to conceal her size, either. But for some reason, when she elbowed Jaune about making a move, he recoiled in disgust. Must be someone he knew, since he pointed her out as the owner before.

The buxom woman left the bar after a young man took her place. Everyone with eyes ogled her for at least two seconds as she past. Yang wasn't into older women, but even she had to admit that she was fine as wine. She approached their table.

"Welcome to Eleventh Heaven." She said as she stepped up and pulled out a notepad. "What can I get you started on today?"

"I'll have a strawberry sunrise, with a little umbrella, please." Yang replied.

The woman's eyes narrowed on the black mark on Yang's wrist. Jaune insisted they be honest about their ages, but to her ire. The owner wagged her pencil at her.

"You sure you're old enough?"

"Ah, I'll be fine." Yang smirked. "Not the first time I've had one."

"That's not what I asked." She scowled. "Unless the doorman mistook you for a minor without checking your ID, I'm not serving you alcohol."

Yang was going to murder Jaune after tonight.

"Do you have milk?" Ruby asked, looking at the menu. "Because I saw you can order a milkshake."

"Yeah, but those are reserved for the milkshakes." The owner answered. "Can I get you a milkshake?"

"Sure!" Ruby smiled, recieving a smile from the woman as well.

Weiss was boring and ordered water, while Blake ordered an iced tea. Nora also ordered a milkshake, and Ren also ordered tea. Yang decided to order the soda.

"And what about you, Miss?" The woman asked Pyrrha.

"Oh, I really should wait for-"

"Oh, relax, Pyrrha." Yang interrupted. "If Vomit Boy isn't here, we'll just order a water for him."

"Well, aren't you rude?" The woman wrinkled her nose. "I don't appreciate punks in my bar."

"And I don't appreciate hags being a buzzkill." Yang countered.

"Oh, you don't want me to throw you out." The owner replied, baring her teeth in a snarl.

"Like you could even try." Yang smiled wide. She didn't know why, but looking at this hag really irritated her. Like someone she really wanted to beat the tar out of.

"Believe me, Princess," she leaned closer, "I won't have to try."

"Don't order without me!" Jaune hurried over, stopping at the table. "Hey, Mom!"

Everyone's jaw dropped as he gave her a quick side-hug, smiling sweetly as she did the same.

"Guys, meet my mom." Jaune said as he stepped away.

"Call me Tifa." Jaune's mom kindly said. She then frowned and pointed a pencil at Yang. "Except you. You call me Mrs. Lockheart, or ma'am."

"Whatever you say, ma'am." Yang smugly replied.

"On second thought, only call me Mrs. Lockheart." Tifa replied.

"What's going on?" Jaune asked.

"Yang and your mom really don't like each other." Nora answered. "Which is weird because I saw her staring at her pretty hard earlier."

"Really?" Jaune asked. He suddenly paled. "Oh my god..."

"What?" Tifa asked.

"N-Nothing, nothing." Jaune waved off. "I'll just have a water."

"Okay, sweetie." She then pecked his cheek. "I'll be back with your drinks."

"Thanks, Mom." Jaune then sat down at the table as his mother left. He took a deep breath. "Yang."

"Yeah?"

"Please don't flirt with my mom." The table erupted in laughter as Yang blushed red.

"Wait, wait, wait!" Ruby said between gasps. "You were flirting with her? I thought you were trying to fight her!"

"Oh, she wants to fight her alright." Nora teased. "A little one-on-one wrestling with Mama Arc."

Yang and Jaune covered their faces, both in separate, yet equally intense embarrassment.

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52 Female & Male Names

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