#(Well in this adaption. He didn't.)

[gunsatthaphan]

~ Monthly BL Breakdown: April 2024 ~ 

🌷 Happy May!!! ☀️

Disclaimer: ALL shows can be streamed here or here, as well as on Youtube and other platforms. For more info on where to watch what, check out this post! 

New breakdowns are coming at the end of every month - feel free to add stuff! -> previous breakdowns

What came out this month? (green = seen/currently watching)

🌟 Love is Like a Cat - April 1st (South Korea / Thailand) 

🌟 We Are - April 3rd (Thailand) ✅

🌟 Memory in the Letter - April 6th (Thailand) 

🌟 Living With Him - April 11th (Japan) 

🌟 Gray Shelter - April 11th (South Korea) 

🌟 Beating Again - April 13th (Thailand)

🌟 Blue Boys - April 15th (South Korea)

🌟 At 25:00 in Alasaka - April 18th (Japan)

🌟 GMMTV2024 Part 2 (lineup event) - April 23rd (Thailand) ✅

🌟 Boys Be Brave - April 25th (South Korea) 

🌟 CHANGE2561 2024 lineup event - April 25th (Thailand) ✅

🌟 My Stand-In - April 26th (Thailand) ✅

🌟 City Boy Log Vol. 3 - April 30th (South Korea)

New series & movie announcements

🎥 The Fridge - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 Flavor of Us (starring Benjamin B., Dome W. & others) - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 Children's Day - Date TBA (Taiwan)

🎥 Blue Time - Date TBA (China, possibly censored)

🎥 Bad Guy My Boss - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 Oriental Magician In The Ent. Circle - Date TBA (Taiwan)

🎥 Under the Oak Tree - Date TBA (Vietnam)

🎥 Invitation - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 The Love Matter - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 I Saw You in My Dream - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 I Wish You the Best - Date TBA (Thailand)

🎥 Impression of Youth - Date TBA (Taiwan)

🎥 Meet You at the Blossom - Date TBA (Taiwan)

Other news from the BL world

❗️ The production company Studio WabiSabi announced that their actors Boun N., Prem W., Santa P., Sammy C., Yacht P. and Stamp P. have terminated their contracts and will no longer be artists under the company on April 15th. Shortly after, GMMTV announced the 6 of them as newly signed artists, along with the disclosure that BounPrem's upcoming BL Vampire Project is now being produced under GMMTV, who now also own all broadcasting rights; WabiSabi will function as a co-producer. New S. stated on Twitter that the decisions had been long in the making, as well as the fact that WabiSabi no longer functions as a management agency for actors and is now a mere production company. He also denied the rumors that the company is shutting down. Shortly after the transfer of the Wabi Sabi actors, actor Fluke Jeeratch (formerly Pongsakorn) joined GMMTV as well.

❗️ The Filipino BL Gameboys is getting a third season. An air date has not been confirmed.

❗️ P Ekkapop and Pan Jirachot, the lead actors from Kiseki Chapter 2, have announced a new project together. Details are unknown.

❗️ Actor Barcode Tinnasit has announced his departure from his agency Be On Cloud.

❗️ After some confusion, the Korean production company Studio X+U announced that their upcoming series Fragile - which was initially advertized as a Korean SKAM remake - is in fact not connected to the Norwegian web series and is instead a standalone series, which focuses on the life of a group of teenagers. According to ZUM News, there was supposed to be a Korean SKAM remake based on the Norwegian original, which was however cancelled due to unknown reasons. Fragile was created as a substitution.

❗️ GMMTV held their 2024 part 2 event on April 23rd. The following BL projects were announced:

The Heart Killers (starring FirstKhao & JoongDunk)

Perfect10 Liners (starring ForceBook, PerthChimon, JuniorMark)

Heart That Skips a Beat (starring EstWilliam)

Revamp (starring BounPrem, formerly known as Vampire Project)

Sweet Tooth, Good Dentist (starring MarkOhm)

The Ex-Morning (starring KristSingto)

❗️ The production company CHANGE2561 held their 2024 lineup event on April 25th. The following BL projects were announced:

This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans (starring SailubPon)

Goddess Bless You From Death (starring PavelPooh)

I’m The Most Beautiful Count (starring PingSupanut)

Pit Babe Season 2

Upcoming series & movies for May

👉🏻 You Made My Day (starring Tar A. and Bom T. from I Will Knock You) - May 3rd (Thailand)

👉🏻 Inverse Identity / Upside Down - Mary 3rd (China)

👉🏻 Wandee Goodday - May 4th (Thailand)

👉🏻 A Balloon's Landing - May 10th (Taiwan)

👉🏻 City of Stars: Special Episode - May 10th (Thailand, cinema release)

👉🏻 The Time of Fever (Unintentional Love Story spinoff) - May 15th (South Korea)

👉🏻 Blossom Campus - May 16th (South Korea)

👉🏻 OMG! Vampire - May 19th (Thailand)

👉🏻 Manji Reverse - May 24th (Japan)

👉🏻 My Biker 2 - May 28th (Thailand)

#doreens monthly bl breakdown #thai bl #bl drama #upcoming bl #update #bl news #decided to do my likes/dislikes in the tags in case some entitled 'fans' are coming for my throat again #my Monthly Like goes to My Stand-In because sorry but the first ep slapped #the story is really interesting also i missed my boy Up so much??? I havent seen him in like 3 years 🥺 #Ming is a red flag lmao but up is doing really well and I also didn't think he would act again since he's been producing lately #but I'm so happy he's back!!! #and I really hope the show stays at that level bc the 1st ep was more than solid #the other guy is pretty good too #another Like is going to the gmmtv lineup bc I feel really good about it!! #so many promising projects it makes me excited 😊 #my Monthly Dislike goes to Love is Like a Cat bc wow it's terrible lol #good to know that Mew's lakorns aren't paying his bills anymore lmao #I dropped it instantly #its SO bad #kinda sad for Mew though #in other news this korean skam situation is confusing me so much lmao #like there was supposed to be an adaption but that got cancelled for whatever reason so now they're making a new show that's.....the same? #make it make sense lmao #also what up with all those gmmtv tranfers lol #whos next?? #dmd hand over ur gays jhgkfd #or maybe dont #can u imagine the dmd boys at gmmtv #they would get fired for public indecency #jhdsfkd

[fromtheseventhhell]

It's crazy that people still uphold show!Sansa as a well-written character and pretend that liking her is the pinnacle of feminism when it would be infinitely more impactful to acknowledge her terrible and misogynistic writing. This is the same character who, while written by two men, was thankful for the abuse she suffered because it allowed her to grow. The same character who we had to be told was smart because the writers were too lazy to develop or show her intelligence. The same character who had to rely heavily on the men surrounding her and ended up accomplishing nothing on her own merit ( and no, thinking that she deserved to be Queen doesn't mean that she earned it). She is not well-written, she is not complex, and she is not a feminist character. Which is fine! If you enjoy her then good on you, but please stop pretending that she's something she isn't just because you feel the need to justify liking her character

#anti got #anti d&d #anti show sansa #anti sansa stans #like literally one of the worst written characters on that show because they tried so hard to make her the most important #while being entirely incompetent and their only method of doing so was to steal from other characters which ruined the plot #the only arguable achievement was defeating LF but even then it's written in the script that she had to go to Bran to explain things #/she rallied the Vale army!/ no she didn't 😭 she wrote a letter to LF and he did everything. instead of showing her arc in the Vale and #her learning about politics to rally them herself they took the quickest route to give her a /badass/ savior scene #which only ended up making her look selfish + power-hungry for putting her brothers' lives at risk for not telling anybody about said lette #and idiotic in the aftermath after relying once again on LF even though he was very obviously manipulating her #/pawn to player/ sounds catchy on paper but without seeing that growth/development it doesn't work #Arya was terribly written but at least we /saw/ her training in a way we never did with Sansa #and people try to apply this same logic to the books and think she's gonna suddenly spring forth as a political mastermind #when that's not how George writes...we see characters develop and make mistakes on page and get actual earned growth #feminism isn't defending the writing of two men who gave her a rape plot not in the books because they thought it was /interesting/ #when the only aspect of that plot they adapted was a woman suffering abuse :/ #and as per usual with stansas their only /evidence/ of her being well-written is accusing you of being misogynistic if you don't like her

[royalarchivist]

Hope everyone enjoyed today's QSMP Cinema event!

As expected, many VODs were unfortunately muted for certain animations because of copyright issues. I know some of the artists weren't able to catch everyone's reactions to their work, and I'm sure there are many other fans & VOD watchers who missed out too.

LUCKY I was able to archive Foolish, Roier, Cellbit, and Quackity's reactions to all the animations, and for anyone interested in viewing them, I'll be uploading them to Google Drive and will post the links here when that's available.

#mod talk #(Assuming Google Drive doesn't decide to be stupid ofc) #UNFORTUNATELY.... I DIDN'T SAVE PHIL'S............ #I THOUGHT I DID. BUT I DIDN'T #ah well at least I watched him live and got to see that #Only one animation was muted on his stream but he had some fun comments about the Cucurucho design #I will be completely honest I prioritized these particular 4 because they're the ones whose POVs I was most interested in seeing #Hopefully the recordings can help out some other folks too though! #I told you guys earlier today that I didn't know how to record live #(I still don't) #HOWEVER I figured out a way to nab the recording before Twitch muted things #Adapt. Improvise. Overcome. #I also covered 8 people for the VOD Timestamp Archive today and it SUCKED I think I need to dial it back vis-a-vis timestamp recording

[bidokja]

I was joking a while back that the actor they have playing KDJ for the orv movie was too handsome for him and a friend who's read orv was like "KDJ is actually secretly attractive!!" And I just felt my soul leave my body right then

SIGHS...

Okay. Buckle in. I'm gonna finally actually address and explain and theorize about this whole...thing.

I'm not gonna cite any exact chapters cause it's like 11:30 and I've got an 8 hour drive in the morning but I'll at least make an approximate reference to where certain things are mentioned. Also, this post is just my personal interpretation for a good bit of it, but it's an interpretation I feel very solid about, so do with that what you will. Moving on to the meat of things:

There is one (1) instance in the web novel that I know of which describes specific features of Kim Dokja (especially ones other people notice). This takes place when members of KimCom are trying to make Kim Dokja presentable to give his speech at the Industrial Complex (after it's been plopped down on Earth). This is when they start really paying attention and focusing on Kim Dokja's appearance since they're putting makeup on him; I still don't think they can interpret his whole face, but they can accurately pick out and retain more features than usual. If I remember correctly they reference him having long eyelashes, smooth skin, and soft hair. These features can be viewed as (stereotypically) attractive.

Certain parts of the fandom have taken this scene and run with it at a very surface level, without realizing (or without acknowledging at the very least) that this scene is not about how Kim Dokja looks. This is, in part, due to not realizing or acknowledging why Kim Dokja's face is "censored" in the first place, and what that censoring actually means. I think it's also possible that some people are assuming the censorship works like a physical phenomena rather than an altered perception.

I'll address that last point first. The censorship of Kim Dokja's features is not something as simple as a physical phenomena. It's not a bar or scribble or mosaic over his face. If that were true it'd be very obvious to anyone looking at him that his face is hidden. But his face is not hidden to people. They can look at him and see a face. If they concentrate on his eyes, they can see where he's looking. They know when he's frowning or grinning. They see a face loud and clear. But what face are they seeing? Because it's not really his, whatever they're seeing.

No one quite agrees on what he really looks like. And if they try and think about what he looks like, they can't recall. Or if they do, it's vague, or different each time. We notice these little details throughout the series. Basically, Kim Dokja's face is cognitively obscured. Something - likely the Fourth Wall, though I can't recall if this is ever stated outright - is interfering with everyone's ability to perceive him properly. This culminated in him feeling off to others; and since they don't even realize this is happening, they surmise that he is "ugly."

Moving on to the other point about what the censorship means: To be blunt, the censorship of his face is an allegory for his disconnect from the "story" (aka: real life, and the real people at his side). The lifting - however slight - of this censorship represents him becoming more and more a part of the "story" (aka: less disconnected from the life he is living and the people at his side). The censorship's existence and lifting can represent other things - like dissociation or depersonalization or, if you want to get really meta, the fact that he is all of our faces at once - but that's how I'd sum up the main premise of it. (The Fourth Wall is a larger part of the dissociation allegory, but that's for another post).

So you see, them noticing his individual features isn't about the features. It's not about the features! It doesn't matter at all which features got listed. Because they could describe any features whatsoever and it would not change the entire point of the scene. Because the point isn't what he looks like. The point is that they can truly and clearly see these features. For the first time. They are seeing parts of him for the first time. Re-read that sentence multiple times, literally and metaphorically. What does it mean to see someone as they are?

This is an extremely significant turning point dressed up as a dress-up scene.

---

P.S. / Additionally, I'm of the opinion that Kim Dokja is not handsome, and he is not ugly. He is not pretty, and he is not ghastly. Not attractive, nor unattractive. Kim Dokja isn't any of these things. More importantly, Kim Dokja can't be any of these things. The entire point of Kim Dokja is that you cannot pick him out of a crowd; he is the crowd. He's a reader. He's the reader. Why does he need to be handsome? Why must he be pretty? Why is him being attractive necessary or relevant? He doesn't, he doesn't, it's not. He is someone deeply deeply loved and irreplaceable to those around him, and someone who cannot even begin to recognize or accept that unless it's through a love letter masquerading as a story he can read. He is the crowd, a reader, the reader. He's you, he's me. He's every single one of us.

#orv #orv analysis #orv meta #orv spoilers #mine #ask #there's also the meta that he is described with these (stereotypically) pretty features as they are about to try and 'sell' him to a crowd #which feels to me like a very pointed way to convey how 'beauty' is commodified. how audiences like 'attractive' characters more #note: made some edits to add in a couple of sentences my brain forgot in the moment so make sure u reblogged those if u do #tag edits for further commentary that isnt strictly relevant to the point i was making: #do i think that this face censorship was executed as well as it could have been? nah. #not that it was like. done Badly. it's followed through to a certain point. its established enough for me to make this post at least. #but i do think it is the one thing in the web novel that SS didn't capitalize on. #like. they still stuck the landing but it was not as picture perfect of an execution as the rest of the metaphorical stuff in orv #also. this (not the face censorship specifically but the 'hes just some guy' point of it all) is one of the big reasons i think that- #-visual adaptions of orv can never quite work. they can do the best that they can with that medium but a lot of nuance is lost- #-simply by virtue of it being a visual medium #i personally think the only way a visual medium could work would be one where they commit to the power move of not showing kdj's face #(until a certain point (of view) that is) #his face is always facing away or out of frame or hidden by someone or something else in the way #commit to the fucking allegory or simply perish

[lesmisscraper]

Thenardier's evidence of who dragged Marius out of the Barricade was Valjean, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 4.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

#Les miserables #les mis #My Post #Thenardier #Marius #Though he gave the evidence but you don't have to give reward to him Marius! #(Well in this adaption. He didn't.) #The Brick #Il cuore di Cosette #Les Mis Letters

[kala-mies]

God thinking about Fated again and like MAN. The characters were so good and loveable it's really a shame that they were in a campaign that wasn't ran very well.

#Bizly said he would get drunk before recording because he used to think dnd was lame but still wanted to hang out #really put things into perspective for some early episodes #while it's clear that he got into it towards the end (with the stuff with Mountain's stepmother and such) #Mountain especially really didn't get to develop and part of it was definitely because the DM had a big focus on the Vengolors for so long #(and Taxi as well. Vel got a brief arc and then was back to the sidelines too) #I don't think it was the DM playing favorites as much as it was him not being great at adapting to the players #Other members have done so much better #albeit my view of his DMing is likely sourened by his generally shitty behaviour on the show and behind the scenes

[kelpiemomma]

Ingo held Khan's scaled wrist gently as he examined the claws his friend now sported. Five fingers had been turned into four deadly talons, new to Ingo but already put to gruesome work by the hybrid.

"I'm sorry about your hands..." he said softly. Khan shrugged as he examined his other claws.

"Eh, don't sweat it. It's hardly the worst thing they've done to me." He responded mildly. As though his body being changed against his will to a weapon was the norm. Ingo glanced at his eyes, his fangs, the remnants of his horns- and remembered this wasn't the first time his friend had been altered against his will. His grip on Khan's hand tightened.

"Still," he insisted, "if we'd found you guys sooner..."

If they'd found Khan and Nana sooner, Khan would still have his hands and Nana would still have both eyes. If they'd been just a little faster to realize the hybrids were missing, to remember where they had come from, if they had pushed their pokemon a little harder to fly and fight-

"I'm glad you found us at all, honestly." Khan said it off the cuff, without thinking, but must have felt how Ingo's grip tightened again. He turned his head to look at his friend and Ingo felt mild dread at the look in his eyes. As Khan leaned forward he cringed back just slightly.

"Hey, look on the bright side!" Khan accentuated his words with a point from his claws. He must have seen Ingo's confused upset because he smiled wider.

"The bright side?" Ingo repeated. There was a bright side to this?

Khan shut his eyes as if he was a teacher explaining something incredibly simple.

"Oh, my sweet summer train man, of course there is!"

He stuck out his claws like Elesa and Skylar did when they were showing off freshly done nails. The scales gleamed in the light, dimly iridescent.

"I match your color scheme now!"

Ingo's gaze remained on the claws for a moment. Was this really a good thing? Khan had lost another important part of himself because he and Emmet had been too slow. Was the simple black nature of his scales that important? Could it make up for everything else?

He looked up with tired eyes, meeting Khan's gaze again, and realized that Khan was not as unaffected as he thought. He was giving Ingo the softest smile he'd ever witnessed on the other man's scarred face, his eyes half shut and gentle. Khan had been there when it happened, had suffered the consequences, just as he had the last time he'd been abducted. He would figure out how to deal with his new appendages just as he always had before. It was not quite old hat, but it was also nothing new, and something would have been changed no matter how quickly he and Emmet had arrived.

For the first time in the years he'd known Khan, the hybrid was being sympathetic and offering Ingo a comfort over something he had no control of. Yes, he now had claws and scales, but they were the color that Ingo most frequently found himself in. The color of one of his closest family members. Ingo wondered if Khan had used that as a way to comfort himself after it happened, but didn't dare ask. Instead he tried smiling. Surely it was weak, but the worried look in Khan's eyes lessened.

"Yes, you're quite right." Ingo grasped Khan's claws as if they were still his hands, holding them tightly. He would get used to them, just as Khan had. It would be alright. "Another color would have been quite unfortunate."

#Khan a. #I have no name for this au #TLDR Emmet and Nana met up in the future-present. Nana developed beyond Khan and they managed to track them down in Hisui #And get them home. Akari comes with ofc. Ingo and Akari go back to visit their friends in Hisui regularly. They return after a visit #To find Emmet in distress. While they were gone Khan and Nana were abducted by the organization that originally made them what they are. #Secret labs are not as easy to find as people think and it takes some time for them to track down where Khan and Nana ended up. When they D #They find nana missing an eye. Khan missing his hands. And (to their surprise and horror) Rei. From Hisui. #Who is now a (hisuian) Growlithe hybrid in a similar manner nana and Khan are also hybrids. #Everyone gets saved but not without some losses. Given ow hpeaceful everything has otherwise been... this is upsetting to the train men. #Akari copes by making a pros and cons list of their new abilities and helping Rei adjust to the future #(he can't go back to Hisui because he still exists there... nobody knows why or how he came to be in the organizaion's clutches) #Emmet and Ingo are determined to track down and eradicate the rest of the offshoot branches of the organization but each feel guilty #If they'd been faster. If they'd been smarter. If they'd found a clue a little earlier. #If if if if if. Khan and Nana are no strangers to undesired body modification and are already getting used to them. #(primarily by mocking each other. They're allowed to. They've seen the worst of each other in the first hybridizations and now this.) #For Khan it's very much a 'well. This wasn't planned. Time to adapt.' #At least they didn't give him soft mittens he couldn't inflict damage in #but now he has to be careful lest he unintentionally inflict damage (he cut Akari by accident once already. It gutted him.) #Anyway that guilt manifests into ingo apologizing (more than once) #And Khan trying to convince him it's fine. It sucks but it's fine. It's not ingo or Emmet's fault. #Ingo better appreciate gentle and sympathetic Khan while he's got him cause once the guilt is over Khan is going back to being a bastard #Also I apologize for the beanie but I haven't figured out hair for ANY info #And I was not about to draw his bitch ass hat

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

210. The Stalls Of Barchester (1971)

#the stalls of barchester #the stalls of barchester (1971) #2023filmgifs #my gifs #best Lawrence Gordon Clark adaptation of an MR James story yet #it was so spooky and so delicious #i loved every bit of it #and then shrieked at the end #cos i totally did NOT realise that was ROBERT HARDY #until the credits ran and i was like WHAT #well i've never seen him this young i think #i even had a weird twinge of familiarity at some point #but didn't connect at all #he was so good #and darling Clive Swift #i'm so glad he's in these #he's so perfect for the antiquarian role #i like to think dear ole Monty would approve of him

[tiffanybluesclues]

To anyone who thinks I dislike Jason because I'm campaigning against his ship in that one poll, that's not the case, I just really like him with Artemis while also really disliking the way RHATO changed Kory and Roy's characters. 😶‍🌫️

The Dark Trinity team is such a good idea and so interesting to me, I'm like...why didn't you do that in the first place, DC Comics? 😤

#anti rhato #sort of #dc comics #jaytemis #you didn't know that about me did you? well don't worry i don't have super strong feelings about it the way i do about some comic things #i just kinda casually like them #wouldn't write a dissertation about it the way i could about dick grayson's right to wear pants as robin in adaptations if he wants #dc amt

[general-du-vallon]

I know we all have opinions on s3 me too hut also in episode 1 it's so funny to me Aramis run away to a monarstry and they just give him all the babies like 'this is the perfect fit just burry him in children then he will be a good monk'.

Edit: the tiny conversation where Porthos is like 'boring boring dodiers boring' and Athos is just like. Wheedling and gleeful and knowing Porthos is gonna give in 'we are also musketeers' is great.

And Aramis taking charge of his tiny children and keeping them safe in a cellar is 👌👌👌👌

OK I rlly quite like the musketeers bits of this s3 episode.

#I really like some bits in s3 I just fast forward through. Well. A lot of it #It was only recently that I realised Aramis just outright tells the King he had sex with the Queen and the baby is his his 😂😂 #There's bits in it that are super great tho. Like Porthos.. I was gonna give egs but actually just all of Porthos #What? My blog name is that for a reason duh #Lucien girmaud is boring imo but also I am BAFFLED cus I haven't read 3m fro a long time but. But. But.. Girmaud is athos servant who #Is more taciturn than athos and never speaks and. Well athos beats him cus in the book they are not good dudes. It's very funny. #Maybe this is book girmaud wreeking his revenge on athos for the beatings that's all I can think of. #Like where did they get this girmaud from? Why call him girmaud #Baffling adaptation choice. I guess they just liked the mirror of Athos bit and ran with it #But didn't rlly give an in universe reason for them being mildly obsessed with each other #Anyway. I'm rambling. I'm watching episode one in s3 with Aramis and all his ducklings #And Porthos being incredibly hot. Mostly very grumpy. He gets stuck in a hole I remember that bit. Like winnie the pooh hahahaha can't wait

[whenthegoldrays]

Perpetually in a love-hate relationship with Gerwig films

#like her little women is so good and beautiful and it has so much heart and I truly do enjoy it the most out of the adaptations I've seen #but then we get into the Problems #and I can't stand the Friedrich erasure #like he's there and we get the umbrella scene and whatnot but then she paints over it with the scene at the publisher's office #like did it happen? did it not?... #which is Not The Point!! #like magpie was saying in her barbie post the answer is love actually! #and yeah Jo still has her family but it doesn't hit as well when they tell us that the happy ending 'isn't girl gets boy but girl gets book #great for Jo that she has her book! that's incredible! but what you need is human connection! #and canonically she not only stays close to her family but she finds a husband who is her equal partner and whom she's madly in love with #which would round out her attic monologue so well #she doesn't want to be cornered into society's role for a woman as just a wife and mother #but she's lonely!! she wants connection!! the ending brings her full circle because she finds love AND an additional purpose outside of it #but then making it open ended or like she didn't find the connection she wanted cheapens the whole thing #elly's posts #little women 2019

[sydney-carton-of-sour-milk]

I just found this incredible resource listing all the known silent film adaptations of A Tale of Two Cities! Here is that list:

A Tale of Two Cities (USA 1908)

Director: [not known] Production Company: Selig Cast: [not known] Length: 1000ft Archive: Lost

A Tale of Two Cities (USA 1911)

Director: William Humphrey Production Company: Vitagraph Cast: • Maurice Costello (Sydney Carton) • Norma Talmadge (Lucie Manette) Length: 3021ft Archive: BFI, MOMA, UCLA Availability: Grapevine Video DVD-R

A Tale of Two Cities (USA 1917)

Director: Frank Lloyd Production Company: Fox Cast: • William Farnum (Charles Darnay / Sydney Carton) • Jewel Carmen (Lucie Manette) • Charles Clary (Marquis St. Evrémonde) • Rosita Marstini (Madame Defarge) Length: 7 reels Archive: UCLA

The Birth of a Soul (USA 1920)

Director: Edwin L. Hollywood Production Company: Vitagraph Cast: • Harry T. Morey (Philip Grey/Charles Drayton) • Jean Paige (Dorothy Barlow) Length: 4986ft Archive: Lost Note: Loose adaptation in American setting

A Tale of Two Cities (Tense Moments with Great Authors) (UK 1922)

Director: W.C. Rowden Production Company: Master Cast: • J. Fisher White (Dr. Manette) • Clive Brook (Sydney Carton) • Ann Trevor (Lucie Manette) Length: 1174ft Archive: Lost

The Only Way (UK 1926)

Director: Herbert Wilcox Production Company: Herbert Wilcox Cast: • John Martin Harvey (Sydney Carton) • Madge Stuart (Mimi) • Betty Faire (Lucie Manette) • J. Fisher White (Dr. Manette) Length: 10075ft Archive: BFI

I will reblog this with a link to the source!

#A Tale of Two Cities #AToTC #Dickens #classic literature #adaptations #i have spent the last almost hour trying to find the 1926 one that I either didn't know or forgot existed #because I've always wanted to see Sir John Martin-Harvey's portrayal and have lamented that it was only theater #well turns out I WAS WRONG he did a movie too and now i'm furious #because it's NOT LOST! I just can't Find it anywhere on the Internet except for this one place that is not only only available in the UK #but doesn't even accept registration anymore🤡 but I think it's still There... taunting me #so...anyone up for a challenge?

[laulo821]

this morning i witnessed a post on here that made me clench my fist so hard... is that what y'all always feel like when you see a poor take???

#i resisted the urge to hate the hater back #it was so needlessly unkind #some guy on reddit posted a pic of Tik-Tok (from Return to Oz (1985) the adaptation of Ozma of Oz (1906)) #and yea he said boomer shit like “nOw ThIs Is ThE TiKtOk wE hAd WhEn We WeRe YoUnG” #but the tumblrina just pulled up Ozma of Oz sayin “ppl born in 1890/1900 turn 40 this year i didn't know” like BRO #YOU PUT RETURN TO OZ IN YO TAG WHY ARE YOU PULLING UP OZMA OF OZ #YES PEOPLE BORN BEFORE 1985 TURN 40 WELL DONE ON THAT ONE #ALSO WHAT. WHY– HUH??? BOOKS HAVE PERMANENCE YKNOW. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE THERE THE YEAR IT WAS PUBLISHED TO ENJOY IT #HE COULD BE TURNING 20 FOR ALL THAT MATTER #anyways p sure the tumblrina was trying to do a funnie but . dude. that was just picking on a guy that too prolly pulled a funnie #augh #maybe i am over reacting tho ... sigh #rambling #also i did assume the redditors pronouns but i can't be bothered to edit all them tags im sorry random person i don't know

[cinnamontoads]

scott pilgrim takes off a solid 3/10 from me i'd say just read the comic atp

#i know it's not intended to be a direct adaptation by any means #BUT. that's no excuse for poor and confusing writing #the whole thing was just... baffling. and not enjoyable #those 3 points go to good animation and wallace wells #i cant believe im saying this but i like the movie more than i liked that. and i don't like the movie at all from a basis of accuracy #a lot of plot points didnt make sense. characters got almost 0 characterization #if i didnt know them beforehand i would be even more confused on who everyone is or why they know and like each other #scott and ramona's relationship at the end was just not believable at all because they didn't develop on it for more than 5 minutes? #because scott was missing for 6 episodes? why would she go so far for a guy she had a one night stand with? #im just. hrnnnngh #also the voice acting was dogshit will forte my saving grace the only ep i liked was 7 because he elevated it

[tae-shimura-is-my-wife]

Let me just said it, since the R//R novel probaly will be adapted to anime. I don't hate the novel at all, because i find it funny, i can't hate something that made me laugh so much of how stupid the things are, and they literally give me a lot of fanfic and fanart ideas! So i actually very thankful for that novel existing 😆.

(Before anyone says anything! I didn't wanted to read that novel, but a lot of people where saying that this would made the pairings have more sense, in a very "GO READ OMFG AND STOP BEING IR" way, plus i was in my "maybe i'm a delusional IR" era, mind you. So i read…).

But there's a thing, that annoys me and i can't let it go and it is how erased Rukia and Ichigo relationship was in this novel. I know this is a R//R I//H thing, i'm not expecting them to be the center of attention with each other.

It all started weird when the first person who was knowing about their marriage wasn't Ichigo, after everything they gone through it doesn't make any fcking sense! They were too close, how she wouldn't even consider him first? Aren't he her nakama? Anyways

Then it got worse, i thought at least she would tell him when she goes to human world, BUT NO! She literally said to Or1hime first! Look, i know they have a strong bond too and Or1 is amazing! But... c'mon, Rukia literally meet her because of Ichigo, all her strong connections in this world are due him... and that "You're my bff girl, so it needed to be you first", no, no, no, Rukia wtf since when the gender matters when it comes to it😭? She never was like that! Moving on.

It's literally the fcking downhill, Ichigo knew about Rukia marriage DUE ORIHIME! WHAT? Like why? Why wouldn't Rukia told Ichigo such an important thing in her life? Why he needed to know by someone else? It literally seemed like she was hiding it from him...

Other thing that i missed, Ichigo reaction, why couldn't we see how her precious nakama reacted when he knew about Rukia marriage with R3nji? It's even weirder, because we had basically everyone reaction! Even fcking Hanatarou, but Ichigo the protagonist, her best friend, one of the closest people to her, we got nothing? Where's the sense?

And then the party, where they didn't changed a word, it's not even mentioned if they looked at each other, we didn't even see Ichigo greeting Rukia man! What is this? It's literally one of the most important day in her life! But no? Not even an eye contact? Not even a goodbye? Sheesh...

At least in the ending where R3nji encourages Ichigo to try something with Orihime, she could be there... (it literally made more sense to be Rukia than R3nji actually).

It didn't feel natural at all! Their friendship is so cool and special to each other, so why? Why cut it? It's literally part of their characters. Seriously, it looked like they were avoiding each other all the time...

Look when i read it, i tried to take off the IR googles as much as i can, but… The fact that platonic, again PLATONIC IR needed to be cutted out… it's not a fucking coincidence…

#anti ichihime #anti ih #anti rr #anti renruki #i just wanted to rant #don't mind me #i hope that in adaptation they put them interacting at least #this whole rukia doesn't want to talk to him #and he doesn't go to try talking with her #no #i have 2 theories #the first is that IR needed to be taken out bc they would outshine the other main couples #the second is that they didn't wanted to people to root for IR in the novel as well #so they needed to take them out #the writing for the couples is so bad #that IR close FRIENDSHIP is threat #it's pretty funny #and the main couples are bland as always #don't develop any sht #this post is most an personal notes to i develop the fic after #than anything else 😆 #but if someone wants to add something else

[eorzeashan]

Eight stopped using it as frequently around the time of KOTXX when he switched to using a sword, but in his Intelligence days when he used to smoke from a pipe quite frequently, he was either burning an odorless incense that was used in funeral rites because he couldn't hold proper ones for the lives he was about to take, or a poison that he absorbed into himself every time he smoked it for the sole purpose of being poisonous down to the last cell. It was extra fatal to high midichlorian counts, so he'd either blow it in the target's face or they'd eventually succumb to it if they'd touched him beforehand. Even his spit was dangerous, but as a result, he needed to ingest the poison for a long time prior in order for his body to acclimate and slowly absorb it-- hence why he was always seen smoking.

#swtor #oc: orradiz #but what about the time he shared it with the minister??? #ah well let's just say keeper was playing poisom roulette with him #says a lot about eight himself that he was taught to be toxic to the touch and have these risky practices #but also was so alone in the past that he didn't worry about touching anyone but someone who would be dead #adapts virulence operative to his style. #come closer. i am a normal operative #what if you asked him to spit in ur mouf n then you just died