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shipwreckedcomedy · 3 months

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This month...we heist. Happening only on Patreon at the $30 level. 1️⃣1️⃣

#shipwrecked comedy #ocean's 11 #tim de la motte #tom detrinis #evan gaustad #gabe greenspan #tommy hobson #alex jennings #heather mingo #alex ovadia #sean persaud #sinead persaud #james tolbert #joe walker #mary kate wiles #patreon

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maysshortmoviereviews · 3 months

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Mr. Bates vs The Post Office (2024)

One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.

This show is all based on a true story and it will make your blood boil and make you very angry at the injustice. This is still ongoing and you will not believe how long it has taken for the innocent postmasters and postmistresses to get this level of coverage. A must watch. If you are not in Britain, it will still be worth watching if you read up a little bit on the 'Horizon Post Office Scandal'. It really is just so wrong what has happened.

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novelconcepts · 1 year

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Someone asked for my favorite books of the nearly 200 I read in 2022, so, in no particular order:

The story of a girl, a book, and secret doors. The sort of book you lose an entire evening to. Harrow is one of my favorite authors of late.

Police brutality through the lens of mythos. My review for this one was simply “I desperately need to know what comes next.”

This whole trilogy belongs on the list. Magic, family, and politics unspool in a world that leaps off the page. Rarely have I found a series so alive, I forget I’m reading.

A creepy tale of sisterhood. The eerie energy rendered this impossible to put down.

A much sadder tale of sisterhood. There are images in this book that are still haunting me months later.

A sapphic YA mystery with complex characters. Honestly, at this point, I’d read McQuiston’s grocery lists.

No best of list would be complete without Paper Girls. The comic story is much weirder and wilder than the show, but both are excellent at *getting* what it is to be a girl on the cusp of growing up.

Music, magic, and a battle for New Orleans. Fantastical storytelling at its best. I was utterly absorbed.

A mother who subsists on books fights to protect her much more complicated son. It has a dark fairy tale energy I couldn’t get enough of, and a sapphic romance to boot.

Part real-life story of a 1629 shipwreck, part invented tale of a young boy coping with grief in 1989. It’s absolutely brutal on about six different levels, but entrancing.

#long post #book recs #alix e. harrow #cadwell turnbull #fonda lee #krystal sutherland #lucy holland #casey mcquiston #brian k vaughan #alex jennings #sunyi dean #jess kidd #another round coming in a reblog. I forgot about tumblr being sassy about amount of images

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cinemaocd · 4 months

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Wolf Hall casting info: who is new and who is returning...

So we have more detailed casting info and an imdb page for The Mirror and the Light.

Mark, Damian, Jonathan Pryce, Thomas Brodie Sangster, Lillit Lesser, and Kate Phillips are all returning for MATL.

Different actors for the following parts:

Norfolk, will now be played by Timothy Spall Lady Pole, will now be played by Harriet Walter Stephen Gardiner: Alex Jennings Lady Jane Rochford: Lydia Leonard Gregory Cromwell: Charlie Rowe Call Me: Harry Melling Richard Riche: Tom Mothersdale Lady Shelton: Lucy Russell Eustache Chapuys: Karim Kadjar Edward Seymour: Will Tudor Hans Holbein: Thomas Arnold

New characters (click through to imdb to see the actors):

Bess Oughtred, CHRIStOPHE Mary Fitzroy, Martin the Gaoler, Lady Margaret Douglas, Nan Seymour, JENNEKE, Thomas Howard the Lesser, Geoffrey Pole, Thomas Avery, Lady Margaret Seymour, DOROTHEA, Olisleger, Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleves and

*airhorns"

Thomas Wyatt (will be played Amir El-Masry)

#timothy spall #harriet walter #Wolf Hall Series 2 #The Mirror and the Light #Hilary Mantel #I am in my feelings about some of the acting changes but I'm so excited for Christophe and Thomas Wyatt I don't care #and also looks like some more diverse/inclusive casting so that's great #we love to see it #alex Jennings

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literary-illuminati · 6 months

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Book Review 62 – The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings

This is the latest book I never would have heard of if it wasn’t for an award nomination (WFA for Best Novel, in this case). Overall, I was left dearly wishing I had liked it more than I did – it was so thoroughly soaked in imagery and references to a whole milieu I only barely know enough about to catch all the references flying over my head. Unfortunately by the final act the whole thing just collapses into a mess of spectacle without much in the way of connective tissue or context.

The story follows Perilous “Perry” Graves, his kid sister, and his best friend/crush Peaches (who is clearly an ersatz Pippy Longstocking but for some reason this is almost literally the only reference the book doesn’t explicitly acknowledge). They live in Nola, a fantastical alternate New Orleans full of zombies, animate graffiti, sky trolleys, and music that is indistinguishable from magic. After the magical songs that sustain the city escape/are stolen, it��s up to the three of them to get them back before Stagger Lee (the song) hunts down and kills the others for his mysterious partner. There’s also an extended subplot with Casey, a recently returned Katrina refugee in what seems to be our world, discovering that his and his cousin’s graffiti and other art is very literally magic and can come alive when he isn’t looking. Things just generally get messier and harder to explain from there.

Above everything else, the book’s a love letter to New Orleans. The sheer fascination and affection Jenning’s has for the place just about oozes out of every page. The geography and the culture and especially and overwhelmingly the art. Now I know barely anything about modern pop music and even less about classic jazz, but Jennings is either a massive fan or an incredibly confident bullshitter, and either way it’s an absolutely loadbearing part of the book – famous jazz musicians appear as magicians and ghosts, snatches and stanzas of different songs are quoted liberally, and of course the songs themselves are the driving engine of the plot. I, at least, just kind of let all the references wash over me and try to figure them out from context, and also started listening to the namedropped songs as I read. But even without really knowing the subject, the sheer love for the culture that just suffuses the book is really incredible endearing. Which is good, because it’s absolutely the main actual draw here.

The dialogue also deserves a shoutout – both because there’s a fun line you can draw between the characters that talk like actual people and the ones that intentionally present themselves like cartoon characters, and also because it’s the first book I can recall reading this year where people speak in AAVE. Plus, as a matter of style, when songs or certain ghosts were speaking telepathically the book used a different font for what they were saying, which is the sort of flourish that I always like when it’s not too overused.

While the surreal, exaggerated sort of magical absurdism works very well for the setting of Nola, the plot is...just kind of a mess. You almost get the sense the book was written in one sprint and then never revised – the protagonists are constantly getting help out of nowhere exactly as they need it to solve their latest problem, and revelations of plot critical information exactly when it’s needed to keep things moving abound, whether there’s any setup or justification for it or not. The metaphysics that underpin Nola are all vague and confused, which really wouldn’t be an issue if the entire third act didn’t turn on on the villain being wrong about them. The end result is a finale that feels like a bunch of big set piece scene the author had been looking forward to writing without any real connective tissue linking or supporting them.

Also, like – it is a major part of Perry’s arc that a year before the events of the book he had a run in with a monstrous caricature of a Jim Crow era hanging judge, and it has traumatized him sufficiently that he had steadfastly refused to try and do any magic since. The judge is later revealed to be an escaped bit of living graffiti, with absolutely zero relevance or deeper significance, and never appears on-screen again. Which just feels like some sort of narrative malpractice, honestly.

I’m also just left a bit disappointed with the villain – or, specifically, the wasted potential. Like, the idea of The Storm as this primeval elemental force that wants nothing more than to drown the world is a pretty great villain for a magical New Orleans, honestly. And there was something there of graffiti and music and just art being this engine of joyous hubris letting the city exist in defiance of its inevitable doom – but you really have to dig to get at it, and most of the other personal plots and heroes journey stuff burying it was far less compelling to me.

Anyway yeah, in the end this very much felt like it was style over substance, but on the other hand the style was excellent. In the end I kind of feel like this was ill-served as a book? Not that it’s necessarily impossible to write a novel that’s mostly about music, but this was really begging for a medium that could include a soundtrack.

#book review #the ballad of perilous graves #alex jennings #sff #urban fantasy

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maketheshadowsfearyou · 8 months

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Niyx, after the hyroa attack: I've learned some very valuable lessons from this. Alex: I’m guessing they are all horrible distortions on the lessons you actually should’ve taken away. Niyx: Death isn't real and I'm basically God.

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aceoffangirls · 8 months

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EVERYONE PLEASE GO READ THIS SERIES. IT IS SO GOOD AND THE FANDOM IS SO SMALL. With an epilogue book coming towards the end of the year now is the perfect time to start.

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girlinthebookshelf · 3 months

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𝐤𝐚𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐣𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜

(THE book boyfriend)

from The Medoran Chronicles, by Lynette Noni

(all pictures sourced from pinterest)

medoran chronicles masterlist

#the medoran chronicles #kaiden james #kaiden the medoran chronicles #lynette noni #kailex #aesthetic #book boyfriend #boyfriend material #the medoran chronicles books #declan stirling #alex jennings #alexandra jennings #delucia cavelle #jordan sparker #bear ronnigan #niche fandom

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acrylicqueen · 5 months

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How can I possibly be expected to wait until December 8th to see Humphrey again I'm biting his head off as we speak

#your christmas or mine #your christmas or mine 2 #alex jennings #the premise of the sequel seems so adorable and i cant wait #drabbles

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evils-corner · 7 months

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🏳️‍🌈?

#catcf musical #charlie and the chocolate factory musical #Charlie and the chocolate factory #Willy Wonka #:)#Alex Jennings #Alex Jennings Willy Wonka

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vivian-bell · 1 year

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The truth is, as much as I wanted to be here with Hayley, an even bigger part of me just wanted a proper family Christmas again.

Your Christmas or Mine? dir. Jim O’Hanlon

#your christmas or mine #asa butterfield #cora kirk #jim o'hanlon #alex jennings #ram john holder #june watson #angela griffin #gifs #posts by me #movies #vignette

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tinynavajoreads · 9 months

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Currently Reading: The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings

It has been one of those days, weeks, where things seem slow and sticky and yet quick as a whistle as well. And this book ain't helping that feeling!

Don't get me wrong, it's a good book, but so many storylines, so much magic, so many characters that are worrying about the same things I am is both wonderful and slightly frightful. I have underlined so many passages that have just stuck out to me and this is only my first time reading through Perilous Graves. This young man just wants a normal life, a life where he can love his friend and be there for her and possibly play a little music/magic. But no, he's called on to save the world and to save his city of Nola, a...reflection of New Orleans. Now it's just time to see how well he fares.

#the ballad of perilous graves #alex jennings #fantasy #booklr #book talk #book quotes #reading #currently reading #book

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camyfilms · 1 year

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THE CROWN 2016

To do nothing is the hardest job of all. And it will take every ounce of energy that you have. To be impartial is not natural, not human. People will always want you to smile or agree or frown. And the minute you do, you will have declared a position. A point of view. And that is the one thing as sovereign that you are not entitled to do. The less you do, the less you say or agree or smile, the better.

#the crown #2016 #tv #favoured #claire foy #matt smith #vanessa kirby #eileen atkins #jeremy northam #victoria hamilton #ben miles #greg wise #jared harris #john lithgow #alex jennings #lia williams

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literary-illuminati · 6 months

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150 pages into Perilous Graves and - Okay there's an endless list of popular tropes that always make me grind my teeth whenever they show up in an otherwise promising story, but 'Surprise! You're special. Why? Well, you see, you're great-great grandparent was super important and as we all know, heroism is a heritable disease. Have some plot-magic.' really has to be near the top of the list.

#the ballad of perilous graves #alex jennings #sff #tht

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maketheshadowsfearyou · 8 months

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Fletcher: Is anyone going to tell me what's going on in here?! Kaiden: It's kind of complicated, but Alex- Fletcher: Got it. Forget I asked.

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aceoffangirls · 9 months

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AHHHH IM SO EXITED

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