#a scandalous woman

[fridaythe13ththeseries]

Femme Fatale

Episode Recap #61: Femme Fatale Original Airdate: December 2, 1989

Starring: Louise Robey as Micki Foster Steve Monarque as Johnny Ventura (as Steven Monarque) Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak

Guest cast: Gordon Pinsent as Desmond Williams Kate Reid as Lili Lita Chris Moore as Glenda Jed Dixon as Eddie Dugan Louise Kidney as Tina Larson Lorretta Bailey as Krissy Sloan (as Loretta Bailey) Kim Huffman as Erin (as Kymberley Huffman) John Tench as Gunsel 1 Matt Birman as Harmon David Eldan as Film Nerd / Roarke Brian Furlong as Cop Sandi Stahlbrand as News Reporter Tom Neal as Al Roberts (archive footage)

Written by Jeffrey Bernini Directed by Francis Delia

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Open on night at a big old house. Inside, a man is drugging the tea he then brings to his bedridden wife. He leaves her with the tea to work on his screenplay. Before the man, Desmond, leaves, his wife Lili Lita, tells him she loves him. He says he loves her, too.

Downstairs, he opens the door for a younger woman. He asks if she told anyone about working with him, she says no. In another room, he pulls out a film reel of a movie called "A Scandalous Woman", which his wife had starred in years ago. He loads the film to play for them, commenting on how great Lili was in the film.

The old black and white movie plays, a film noir that Desmond wrote the screenplay for. Cut to later, towards the movie's climax. He tells the young woman to watch as Lili's character comes back on screen. Desmond holds the woman and pushes her up into the beam of the film projector. The light goes bright, and then this woman is transported to Lili's place in the film and Lili is alive in the room with Desmond. The confused young woman is in the movie being roughed up, as Lili and Desmond kiss, and the real Lili awakens in bed, hearing her old movie playing.

Cut to credits.

Lili continues to listen in bed. The movie plays on with the young woman unable to understand what is happening. Fake Lili and Desmond continue to make out as the movie plays. In the film, the woman is chased in her car, then a shoot out happens. Desmond and Lili sit up to watch as it appears the young woman is going to die in the film. After she is shot, the Fake Lili is back in the film, for her death scene. Desmond is alone as the movie ends.

Next we are at Curious Goods. Jack has slept late and Micki teases him. Jack says he was teaching Johnny chess, but Micki says Johnny told her they watched "hot videos". Jack scoffs, says they were chess videos, then changes the subject, asking why Micki is reading through the manifest. She said another actress has disappeared, the sixth one in a short time, so she is hoping to find a connection.

Back at their home, bedridden Lili is asking Desmond how his script is coming along. He said it is going slow. She suggests a break, since their old style films aren't in demand. He isn't so sure. He says he is going out to a show, a retrospective of his films. She tells him to have fun, but watch out for young girls.

That night, at the theater retrospective, Johnny is there, his date a film student named Erin, who is eager to see the work of a 'master of film noir." Johnny isn't so thrilled to watch an old film, but she says it is her favorite. As they watch, Erin has tears in her eyes, Johnny is bored. Desmond is announced to applause, and Erin goes to talk to Desmond. Outside, she asks Desmond for directing advice. He tells her to give him her number, he's planning to teach a course on film directing. She does, eagerly. Another woman, Krissy Sloan, does the same.

Later, we see Krissy jump out of the car as Desmond arrives home. She is excited to be there, Desmond asks her to be quiet, because Lili is sleeping. Desmond has told Krissy she can watch "A Scandalous Woman" and spend the night.

Cut to later, Krissy is in the film, in the car chase, as Lili and Desmond make out. This time, this Fake Lili makes demands. Seems as long as the real Lili is alive, this Fake one is doomed to return to the film after the character, and hapless actress trapped within, is shot. Desmond says next time, but Fake Lili is sick of hearing it. She says if real Lili is there next time, it's over. Real Lili lies awake in bed, listening still.

Fake Lili fades away, and dies in the film. Desmond cries out this time, and real Lili calls down on the intercom, asking if he's okay. He assuages her.

Johnny arrives at the store, Jack and Micki tell him about the missing actresses. Micki lists movie-related items in the manifest, including the returned make up case and movie camera. But there is a 16mm film reel still unaccounted for. She goes to check Lewis' files. Johnny fills Jack in on his bad date and the movie they saw, which Jack remembers. Johnny hated the film, but his date loved it. Johnny mentions Desmond, and his wife, Lili Lita and the film they made together, "A Scandalous Woman." Upon hearing this, Micki comes back saying that is the name of the 16mm film Lewis sold.

At their home, Lili and Desmond walk out on to the balcony for fresh air. She says he's been working too hard. He has a vision of pushing her over the balcony, and the comes to his senses as she gasps at him nearly doing so. He apologizes, she says she is fine.

Johnny is watching the news as Micki and Jack find the listing of the movie sold to a D.W. - Desmond Williams. Johnny calls them over as a report on missing Krissy plays. Johnny says he saw her at the show. Jack says him and Micki will go talk to Desmond, and wants Johnny to talk to his cop friend and see if Desmond is connected to any of the other missing women.

Cops are already at Desmond's home with a picture of Krissy, who Desmond says he doesn't recognize. They leave, Desmond is nervous, recalling what Fake Lili told him. Real Lili calls to him, asking him to come upstairs. He makes her tea, drugging it again. He brings the drink upstairs as the voices of both Lilis play in his head. He drops the tea and startles Lili. He says he'll get another, then there is a knock on the door.

Desmond answers to Micki, who says she saw his film and was inspired and wants to talk. Desmond tries to shut the door, but Micki mentions the film reel he bought. Desmond is concerned and lets her in. Jack lurks outside. Desmond goes to check on Lili and leaves Micki alone. She opens the window to Jack, who wants the film print. Micki gets it from the shelf but Desmond spies her and comes back in. Micki says she is interested in buying it, but Desmond says they should watch it first and loads the projector.

Cops in a patrol car pull up outside and see Jack lurking about. Desmond starts the film, and the cops arrest Jack.

Micki and Desmond watch the film, then struggle as Desmond grabs her, forcing Micki in front of the projector and then into the film. Fake Lili and Desmond make out, and Desmond admits he couldn't kill the real Lili. Fake Lili walks off, planning to find someone to kill Lili herself. A knock on the door, and he tells her to hide. It's the cops with Jack, who said her friend is inside and in danger. Desmond is outraged, but Jack and the cops barge in to the screening room. They find no Micki, but a young woman who Jack recognizes as Lili Lita, from years ago. Fake Lili says she doesn't know Jack, so the cops take him away. Desmond is freaking out that other people saw her. Fake Lili doesn't care, tired of being locked in the film. She wants a real life, and real Lili dead.

Desmond goes upstairs and Lili is in her wheelchair. He says it was only a prowler and the cops took him away. He helps her back in to bed. Desmond says if she hears anything, it's just him watching one of her old films. Lili seems tired.

Downstairs, Desmond hears Micki screaming in the film as it continues to play. He looks for Fake Lili and sees the door is open. He looks outside, Fake Lili is hiding, then goes back inside.

Johnny and Jack are driving, rushing back to Desmond's after Johnny bailed him out. Jack is panicked for Micki's safety, since he saw the Lili there from 40 years ago. He tells Johnny to step on it. Micki is still being tossed around as the "damsel in distress" in the film, trying to play the bad guys against each other. She fights them and runs off.

Desmond still searches for Lili, then finds her. She says she was just teaching him a lesson about how easy it would be for her to vanish. Desmond says he can't kill his wife, but Fake Lili says he could live happier with her. He says Lili is famous, she would be missed. Fake Lili doesn't care.

Desmond goes to check on sleeping Lili. He kisses her. Fake Lili comes to the doorway. He picks up a pillow and begins to smother Lili in bed. She struggles and then goes still, apparently dead. Fake Lili is thrilled, and kisses him. They leave the bedroom.

Johnny and Jack arrive outside, heading to the window Micki unlatched. The film is still playing, Micki is being chased.

Desmond and Fake Lili make out on the sofa, thinking they have all the time in the world now. But suddenly, the real Lili arrives with her cane in one hand and a gun in the other. They are shocked she's alive. The two Lilis have a stand off.

Johnny and Jack are outside.

Real Lili is confused as to why this woman looks like her younger self. Fake Lili tells her about Micki taking her place in the movie. We see Micki climbing a fence and being shot at. Jack pulls the window open and calls to the real Lili as the Fake one makes a break for it, Johnny in pursuit.

Jack enters through the window and tells Lili it is his friend in the film.

Johnny chases Fake Lili outside.

Real Lili is confused, asking Jack how to free Micki. Jack says someone has to take her place. He says they need to find the Fake Lili to put her back. Jack says there were other women before Micki, and Desmond says he just wanted to be with her like the old days. Real Lili says he didn't love her, just the character she played in the movie.

Fake Lili makes her way downtown and sees the theater marquee with her film playing, and the poster with her on it. Johnny spots her entering the theater and follows. She sits watching, in awe of the audience watching. Johnny slowly approaches, calling her Lili, telling her she needs to go back. She refuses, saying Desmond lied to her. Johnny says they can go talk to him and she agrees.

Micki is in the car chase scene, so the film is nearing its end. She keeps calling out to Jack for help.

Lili continues to hold the gun on Desmond, who says he was never unfaithful, cause Fake Lili is her. She doesn't buy it, saying he was in love with the slut character he created, because she couldn't stay young. Desmond says if Lili goes into the film, she can stay young. Jack disagrees, but Desmond says it is the only way for Micki to come back, someone has to die. Fake Lili comes in and says that can be arranged.

The two Lilis are both against Desmond now. Desmond tries to grab the gun away from his wife and they struggle. Real Lili shoots him, and he collapses on the couch. Micki is near her death in the film, but real Lili steps in front of the projector, taking Micki's place. Real Lili is dying in the film, Fake Lili fades and screams, then Micki rises up in front of the screen. Real Lili dies in the movie as it ends.

At Curious Goods, the film is in the vault and a banged up Micki hopes to never see it again. She was at the mercy of the film, Jack says Desmond was caught up in the illusion of the film. Micki feels her face, not feeling like what she went through was any illusion.

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My thoughts:

Okay, how long was "A Scandalous Woman"? The last time Desmond starts the movie, when Micki gets trapped, Jack gets caught, brought inside, then arrested, brought down to the police station, is bailed out by Johnny, they go back to the house, skulk around, slip inside, Johnny chases Lili downtown, convinces her to come back, they go back and still have the stand off with the two Lilis. That is one long old movie!

I also didn't like Micki just standing idly by as Desmond loaded the film in to the projector. Micki knew it was cursed and seven women were missing. Why would she stand there as the curse kicked in? She is smarter than that.

I liked the mention of the make up case and movie camera from previous episodes.

If Desmond bought the cursed film from Lewis years ago, why was it only now that things got out of hand? Was it sitting on the shelf and he never knew how to use it? Did the first woman wander in front of the projector and get sucked and Fake Lili appeared? Or did the cursed reel slowly call out to him over the years? Makes me wonder.

This also a very specific curse for Desmond. If he had died and someone else got the print, would the curse have adjusted accordingly? I assume so.

Micki owes Johnny, for somehow quickly convincing his cop friend to let him bail Jack out. Time was of the essence! And old Lili sacrificing herself for Micki, too. Great act for a stranger to her.

And how close did Desmond live to that movie theater? Had to have been minutes away in walking distance.

Interesting episode, even with the plot holes.

Next week: Mightier Than the Sword

#season three #episode recap #femme fatale #film #movie #film reel #16mm film #a scandalous woman #80s tv #micki foster #robey #louise robey #chris wiggins #jack marshak #johnny ventura #steven monarque

[becca-e-barnes]

I need more of needy Bucky who loses control from the feeling of being inside your pussy. I need him to fuck me like a rag doll and to carry me over his shoulder around the house like his personal flesh light.

Fuck, this has always been one of my very favourites to write. I really like to imagine that he struggles to last but he can keep going after he finishes 🙈 it's my lil filthy fantasy

But imagine spending the morning in bed with him. You both wake up around 6am and you spend the first little while just touching and chatting before a couple of hours of sex. Now it's maybe around 11am and after lying there together for a while, you're both in the mood for something to eat.

You pull a robe around you and that's just about as much as you manage before Bucky's scooped you up, carrying you to the kitchen.

"You don't need to carry me everywhere!" You tease, remembering that he'd carried you up the stairs to bed last night too.

"I know. But. Carrying you means. I. Can put you. Exactly. Where. I want you." He peppers kisses over your face and neck, tenderly capturing your bottom lip between his before he sets you up on the kitchen countertop.

There's no point arguing with him so you sit there quite happily. He makes up a quick pancake mix, washes some berries from the fridge, preps the coffee machine and sets the little dining table for the two of you.

Somewhere in between, you got a little distracted, perched on the counter scrolling on your phone. You hadn't noticed the way he's looking at you.

He's so caught up in the little things; the way the light hits your shoulder, the curve of your hips, the way the silhouette of your nipples are visible against the satin robe.

"Look at you, sitting there all sweet like your cunt isn't so fucking full of me."

That's got your attention.

You squirm a little, your body fluttering at how shamelessly vulgar he's being but nothing's stopping you from doing the same.

You spread your legs, exposing the slick mess coating your inner thighs. It's a mixture of your own arousal and Bucky's cum, dripping out of your sensitive cunt.

Your fingertips trail lazily over your exposed sex, your skin glistening in the natural light before you bring your fingers to your own lips, sucking them clean, giving him a little bit of a show.

"Tastes amazing, sweetheart." You groan, noticing the growing bulge in his thin pyjama bottoms. "But I lost track of how many times you came inside me this morning. You came so deep, most of your cum won't have dripped out yet. Bet I'm still totally stuffed full."

He sinks to his knees in no time, settling his head between your thighs, breathing in the faint smell of your arousal. His tongue presses flat to your sex, trailing from your hole to your clit and back, gathering as much of your combined release as possible.

He groans, low and pathetic, allowing his tongue to dip inside you as deep as he can bury it. He savours every drop of cum he earns back from your body.

When his tongue alone isn't enough, he slips a finger into you, followed quickly by a second, curling them against your sensitive inner wall.

"Bucky baby, please don't make me cum again." You groan, your fingers tangled in his dark hair but you know he's not giving you that choice. Not when his free hand is furiously stroking his own cock, desperate to ensure that when he's finished licking his cum out of you, he can flood your cunt with another load.

#asks answered <3 #becca writes spice #anon #needy!bucky #bucky barnes x reader smut #bucky barnes smut #I've gotten so into Scandal again recently #I'm so so so into Mellie #holy shit that woman is stunning #I'd be so tempted to write some shamelessly filthy Mellie x reader #I like Fitz too but just imagine THE COMPETITION #right no I actually HATE picking a colour for a pedi #I get a gel pedi every few weeks and I really need colour suggestions #Last time I got a sparkly red #the time before I got white with a pearly kind of shimmer on top #I've liked both but I'm so bad at picking a colour #I know neons are usually safe in summer but I don't think I'd like neons on me #open to any other suggestions tbh

[cocrante]

I can't believe Nico doesn't have any relatives in Italy. Do you know how many cousins an average Italian has? ☠️ I refuse to believe that his mother, a woman with parents born and raised in the 1800s, only had one child. No way, at least five for sure. Nico must have had a bunch of uncles and cousins who had children over the time as well.

Nico has relatives scattered all over Italy, I refuse to believe otherwise. And don't even tell me it's hard to track down your relatives, because if he goes to ask the grandmas in Venice, they know everything. Grandmas never miss the gossip, and the Di Angelo's story is the most interesting gossip ☠️ ☠️☠️ a woman from the 20th century running away from home with a man she just met and having children out of wedlock in Italy? Never. So obviously, it's on everyone's lips, and they still talk about it because in Italy, people talk about these things for decades and generations. "Oh, see that house? Well, that's where that woman lived." Classic Italian culture

#📌 : headcanon #nico di angelo #riordanverse #bonus: a woman who had two kids from the same man but they didn't marry and she lived alone #scandalous

[baalzebufo]

foil photoset. no reason i just think he is cute :)

#weird al #his hair looks so nice. the apron and rolled sleeves. they really Get Me okay #im a simple man i see a glimpse of forearm i become a scandalized victorian woman #he is so cute to me in this one ..

[guilty-feminist]

#guilty feminist #the guilty feminist #feminism #feminist #women’s rights #human rights #woman’s rights #uk politics #uk news #the enemy doesn’t arrive on boats #it arrives in limousines #the rich #equity #equality #poverty #refugees #the boats #scandal

[wonder-worker]

something I find especially entertaining about Edward IV's reign is how Scandalous™ it was lol

he married a woman “whose origins broke all established conventions for English queenship” in a secret ceremony without consulting any of his lords and then made it everyone else's problem. he committed regicide, he committed fratricide; he was accused of bastardry, he was accused of bigamy and a 19-year-long sham marriage, he was accused of using necromancy against his subjects, he was accused of being enchanted by witchcraft by both his wife and his mother-in-law (multiple times). his own mother was said to "rule the king as she pleased" in the early years of his reign. he knew he was hot and actively milked it for money. he was vain as fuck: “he was wont to show himself to those who wished to watch him, and he seized any opportunity that the occasion offered of revealing his fine stature to onlookers”. he knew everything about everyone. "he was more favourable than other princes to foreigners". he was “fond of boon companionship, vanities, debauchery, extravagance and sensual enjoyments”; he was "thought to have indulged in his passions and desires too intemperately”; "it was ever feared he was not chaste”. his subjects publicly gossiped about his sex life, his doctors thought he was insane. NOBODY understood how he was still competent despite all this.

honestly, who was doing it like him?

#(the quote is by J.L. Laynesmith) #Edward IV #my post #the original post was written as a drunken shitpost but it's still 100% true #henry viii could NEVER. Even Humphrey of Gloucester pales in comparison I'm sorry to say #(EW was also accused of controlling both Edward and the country but I don't want to get into the propaganda against her right now - however #true or false it may have been in reality - so I didn't include it. HOWEVER it's absolutely true that Edward gave her a great deal of #unconventional authority by appointing her in royal councils for the heir and spare in her own right during her tenure as queen. So there #was an existing basis for the accusations against her even though they were obviously ultimately extremely unfair and prejudiced #and meant to denigrate her) #Elizabeth Woodville #Cecily Neville #english history #its kinda funny how historians often emphasize his womanizing (which very obviously happened tho it's difficult to say to what extent) when #talking about his over-the-top lifestyle. But as we can see: Croyland - who was best-placed to know - emphasizes a wider variety of things #that worried/scandalized his contemporaries. Edward sleeping around was just one of many (and the last on Croyland's list) #I don't necessarily think it should be highlighted as much as it is #(also funnily enough 'sensual enjoyments' was also used to describe *Richard III* on his northern progress during his reign lol)

[dollypopup]

sorry, just had to get this off my chest but like

colin, a young and attractive guy, supposedly having a threesome and watching a sex show performed by professionals whom he pays for their service when he is single and exploring what he does and doesn't like is bad for penelope, somehow

but debling a 30+ year old man feeling all up on her waist in public when she is a teenager and he has power and privilege over her and has known her for a grand total of like a week and a half is good, somehow

like this fandom has legit called Colin, a 22 year old man with like. . .2 UNCONFIRMED sexual interactions in the past a groomer for getting with Penelope and maybe introducing her to his interests (after spending YEARS listening to her and cherishing her and thinking she's fantastic) but will root on the actual 30+ year old man with an enormous power imbalance over her via his money and title to have his way with her in a backroom somewhere after knowing her for like a month

make it make sense please

#if that 30+ year old man doesn't get his grubby paws off that teenager i will start blasting #anti debling #polin #one of these men is actively being weird with her and it isn't colin #'oh but he's courting her openly' he is feeling up on her in broad daylight in a time when so much as touching HANDS was scandalous #he is a 30 year old guy who showed up THIS YEAR with an enormous power imbalance between him and this 19 year old woman #she is a third daughter in an unpopular family who has to marry well to survive and he is a lord from out of town #looking for a wife and immediately went for the unpopular girl standing off to the side fidgeting with no one else paying attention to her #and y'all are out here DROOLING for it #i do NOT understand!!!! #idk he gives me the ick #and don't come at me about 'well that was normal for the time!!!' #i hated it when anthony did it to edwina i hated it when simon did it to daphne and i hate that fife did it with goring #it is WEIRD to be a wealthy and powerful man with a title going for a teenager #like do y'all think DEBLING is a virgin??? really

[roses-n-chocolates]

Viola Davis & Kerry Washington in Television Drama; Scandal. First aired on March 1st, 2018

One of the most iconic crossovers ever made in TV history.

#black women in luxury #soft black woman #black culture #black women in leisure #soft aesthetic #black femininity #coquette #soft black girls #romanticism #feminine journey #soft black women #soft life #viola davis #cicely tyson #kerry washington #scandal #how to get away with murder #a moment of black film and entertainment history

[eldritch-nightmare]

I LOVED! the puppeteer relationships post.

Now I gotta ask

Any nsfw stuff???👀

-reagan

a/n: fun fact! the puppeteer is actually asexual! i'm not sure if his creator says if he's sex-repulsed or not, so i opted to write him like... he doesn't feel sexual attraction, but he isn't against watching his partner get off and even helping them a bit at times, y'know? also really glad you enjoyed the relationships post because i really enjoyed writing it <3

nsfw puppeteer headcanons.

warnings: this is now technically my second time writing nsfw because the first time i was writing this, my power went out and i lost everything. BUT STILL IM NEW AT NSFW so if it's bad i'm sorry i am but a virgin and demisexual this is not my area of expertise, minors do not interact, this is pretty short too sorry, masturbation, voyeurism, edging, dominance??, praise, possessive behavior, i think that's everything?? lmk if i missed something!

Okay, so, since he doesn't feel sexual attraction, the Puppeteer doesn't find sex as an appealing thing to partake in either. That, however, does not mean he doesn't gain any form of pleasure when watching his partner masturbate.

The pleasure he gets is more emotional rather than sexual. It pleases him immensely knowing that his partner trusts him enough to be this vulnerable around him, to show him how crazy he makes them feel.

And while he enjoys watching his partner please themself, he especially enjoys when they have him tell them what to do. In his eyes, it's another way of them telling him that they trust him to not do anything that they don't want. That means more to him than they'll ever know.

It warms his very being, I suppose, knowing his partner trusts him so much.

Of course, it also feeds into his already strong possessive tendencies.

No one will ever get to see his partner the way he does. No one will ever see how easily they come apart as he whispers lovingly in their ear, telling them how good they are for following his instructions and getting off to the sound of his voice.

No one will ever hear their whimpers and their moans as they get close to their limit. No one will ever hear the downright sinful whine they let out when he tells them to stop touching themself.

No one's name will ever fall from their lips the way his does.

It's all for him to see and hear. Only meant for him.

And the look of pure bliss on his partner's face when he tells them they can cum? Knowing that he's the only one who gets to see them like this, the only one who can make them feel like this? Honestly, he probably falls in love all over again.

He'll be whispering sweet praises in their ear as they come down from their high, helping them get cleaned up and getting them a glass of water and a snack if they want it.

Of course, he equally loves enjoying the show just as much as he loves directing it.

#reagan #the puppeteer x reader #the puppeteer x you #creepypasta x reader #creepypasta x you #creepypasta smut #i have some of the unholiest thoughts ever but the moment i have to write them down #i am suddenly a scandalized victorian woman #how do you... how do you end smut... #scheduled.

[hawnks]

Me reading any period-piece fanfic: wow that’s sexy <3 but very incorrect

#UNCHAPERONED?? #<- ​literally said that out loud today #the SCANDAL of it all #there should be a fainting Victorian woman emoji #also #that 1920s cabin in the woods would NOT have working plumbing I’m so sorry you are Going to the Well #we need to learn to love and accept dry cabins 🫂 #squawk tag

[luckydiorxoxo]

Viola Davis attends the Clooney Foundation For Justice's "The Albies".

#viola Davis #the albie's #EGOT #melanin #blabk Hollywood #the Clooney foundation #the woman king #scandal #the albie awards #Versace

[thelostsmiles]

#sherlock holmes #sherlockedit #benedict cumberbatch #lara pulver #tvedit #a scandal in belgravia #bbc:rewatch #mygifs #*asib #whip whip #this looks so #sooooo #naughty #the woman

[rey-jake-therapist]

The Woman and Sherlock Holmes: Power Play

"I like to know people will be on my side exactly when I need them to be"

#sherlock bbc #a scandal in belgravia #the woman #irene adler #sherlock holmes #She won the game by the way #Adlock #lara pulver #benedict cumberbatch

[pochapal]

this being a fact does not preclude most of my theory from happening i think. the mansion being habitable and the mansion being complete are two separate states of affair

#umineko liveblog #so long as the construction took around a year that's plenty of time to keep a woman trapped there and have a child #and then have her be dead and the whole thing done with before your family moves in #this of course hard locks beatrice's tragedy into happening in 1951/1952 #which also super confirms that the dirty war money stuff is an entirely separate affair #korean war was a couple years before that #so sequence of events probably goes: kinzo gets war gold => kinzo meets beatrice => kinzo starts building mansion => kinzo traps her #and of course the sex abuse scandal and the war profiteering scandal are now completely entwined

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

love watching period movies where the english shit talk the french and think they're immeasurably hotter shit. like if the topic of discussion is which indistinguishable in the ways that matter aristrocratic colonial empire is the best at the elitism game, maybe start with acknowledging france has an actual sun and better food and incredible fashion, those being the whole substance of the Period Drama discourse and the only concerns of the nobility and landed gentry. how are you gonna live your life obsessed with balls and hunts and estates and connections and still diss the one shit country that was doing it so much better than you just because they allowed themselves to laugh out loud and have facial expressions lol

#this is a joke post #i'm very funny #“these scandalous ill bred french!” “yeah i'm going away to france for my education” #“yeah we'll definitely be staying near the sea side for my health. definitely will hate it there though.” #“france is perfect except for these boisterous rude french” #just admit you're seething from your vitamin d deficiency #which scandalous raven haired french scoundrel eloped with your sister and robbed her of her fortune bestie #which covetous and wanton french woman seduced your cousin and is now being a most improper wife and why are you still seething about it

[inexpressiblybeautiful]

John was actually so right when he asked Sherlock if he knows how lucky he is. Like, Sherlock believed himself to be above such simple things like romance and possibly thought that there isn't a single person made just for him. Then God™ went and put Irene freaking Adler aka The Woman on his lap AND she was naked and ofc smart and beautiful.

And she likes him too.

#Kate said the same thing too #That he's a lucky guy #God wouldn't the shit like this for the rest of us #Enjoy your woman Sherlock frfr #lol #lmao #sherlock holmes #irene adler #sherlock #bbc sherlock #adlock #asib #tld #a scandal in belgravia #the lying detective