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[ademella]

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#books #reading #book cover #the bookman’s tale #Charlie Lovett #book club #novel

[iklees]

First impressions / Charlie Lovett

"Oh, by the way, I had an old customer in here this morning. He's on the trail of something and since you seem so talented at mining the want file, I'll let you take care of him." He handed Sophie a card on which was written the name George Smedley and a phone number. Below that were the words "Richard Mansfield. A Little Book of Allegorical Stories. 2nd edition. 1796." "Is this some sort of joke?" said Sophie with a laugh. "Not at all," said Gusty. "I know it's an odd request, but bibliophiles are an odd bunch." "I don't suppose this Smedley is tall and blond and broad-shouldered and good-looking?" "No," said Gusty. "I'd say he was my height. Hair is dark and curly and he's certainly built solidly but he's hardly classically handsome. Has a face like... well, like a bull terrier. Looks rather frightening, but he's harmless. Used to come in here quite often a year or two back but I haven't seen him in a while." Sophie was on the verge of telling Gusty that another customer had come in yesterday looking for the same book, when it suddenly occurred to her that here, at last, was a real mystery to solve.

Sophie ontdekt al snel waarom er naar het boek wordt gezocht: het bevat een enorme literaire ontdekking, die de reputatie van Jane Austen voor eeuwig zou schaden. Al snel moet Sophie niet alleen zichzelf maar ook het boek uit handen zien te houden van degenen die er achteraan zitten. In elk geval totdat ze de hele waarheid naar buiten kan brengen.

Erg leuke premisse. Nog redelijk spannend, ook al zie je als lezer -- met de voorkennis van First Impressions/Pride and Prejudice -- al mijlenver aankomen wie er voor problemen gaat zorgen, terwijl Sophie zich nog in de luren laat leggen. En niet alleen in de luren...

#Charlie Lovett #Jane Austen

[iliadcharlie]

Delaney Westfall and Joe as Mrs Lovett and Toby make my heart so happy!

I love her version so much

#delaney westfall #joe locke #broadway #sweeney todd #mrs lovett #tobias ragg #heartstopper #heartstopper netflix #heartstopper tv #charlie spring

[gameofthunder66]

'The New Guy' (2002) film

-watched 1/22/2024- 2 [1/2] stars- on DVD

This was a very silly movie; all about some students lives at a high school, but it did end well.

#my have seen list #The New Guy #(2002) #film #ed decter #comedy/teen #dj qualls #eliza dushku #eddie griffin #zooey deschanel #jerod mixon #parry shen #ross patterson #sunny mabrey #lyle lovett #horatio sanz #josh todd #henry rollins #tony hawk #charlie o' connell #jerry o'connell #julius carry #kurt fuller #matt gogin #gene simmons #vanilla ice #geoffrey lewis #kool moe dee #jermaine dupri #valente rodriguez

[chaotic-purple]

I just had a random thought. What if the hazbin hotel charachters put on a production of Sweeney Todd? Naturally my response to this thought was to do a casting of who would play what role and I both love and hate it.

Sweeney Todd- Alastor

Mrs. Lovett- Rosie

Lucy - Nifty

Joanna- Angel Dust

Anthony Hope - Husk

Judge Turpin - Vox

Toby - Charlie

Constable/ background characters - Vaggie

Pirelli - Sir Pentious

Like...why is it so bad and so good at the same time?? 😭 Send help. I can’t stop imagining Alastor waltzing with Rosie singing “A little Priest” with his radio voice. And they can’t get the cannibals doing the props to stop bringing in actual bodies and the egg bois are doing backstage work but they keep setting things on fire…And Angel is on a balcony singing about being a caged bird…I just—I can’t. Yes, I know Husk would absolutely refuse to play Anthony as starry eyed and youthful so it would be a hilariously cranky version of him, but still. Lucifer would record the whole thing and make everyone watch it because he is a proud dad.

#hazbin hotel #sweeney todd #hazbin hotel angel dust #hazbin hotel husk #alastor #hazbin hotel charlie #hazbin hotel vaggie #hazbin hotel sir pentious #hazbin hotel rosie #head cannon

[pastamansta]

🔥 Tim Burton (him as a person or his aesthetic, your choice!)

"Beetlejuice" (1988) reminds me a lot of another film I watched recently; "Tombstone" (1993). Sold by an aesthetic and a FANTASTIC performance from a side character, audiences were conned into loving a mediocre film. I'm not Lindsey Ellis, so don't expect me to talk about the cartoon.

"Batman" (1989) and its sequel is proof that Burton will not be giving up his aesthetic for God or money. Gotham is heavily disconnected from both the film and its source material, with little reason other than its director. There's a reason no one calls these "Keaton's Batmans," they call them "Burton's Batmans." Jack Nicholson is great as The Joker, but that's no hot take. The hot take is that Devito is too horny as The Penguin, and it makes me uncomfortable for a film that's already so sexual.

"Edward Scissorhands" (1990) is a bitter, bitter film where artist finally meets muse. Not, like, in the plot, but in the production. Depp and Burton were made for eachother... or at least that's what I'm supposed to think. This movie's just too messy, however, and can't decide where its focal point lies and leaves me wishing I had just watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (2000) instead.

"Sleepy Hollow" (1999) leaves me, a fan of the original text, I know that's probably a weird thing to say, miffed, even if understanding. Outside of some pacing issues, it's a bold reimagining that feels like Burton attempting to get out of his comfort zone... but I just didn't need this story to be turned into an homage to B-horror. Go watch that Disney short, eh?

"Big Fish" (2003) is his best film. I am hardly qualified to speak on it, and even if I did, I would cry. So, you know, just go watch that shit.

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005) is destined to be compared to "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (1971), and why wouldn't it? In thirty-four years since the making of the original, not a single person worth listening to said "i need this done right," including Burton himself, which is why he tries to add so much, but no amount of additions changes the fact that he casted his muse instead of someone who could, you know, act like Wonka? So, you know, destined for failure and to be loved by everyone who won't watch movies made before 1987.

"Corpse Bride" (2005) is one of only two claymation films that Burton would actually direct, and he uses this time to steal a Jewish story and make it less Jewish. I don't like the ending or the songs and it feels like it could be cut in half and achieve the same effect.

"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (2007) literally doesn't have the iconic opening number from the stage play??? Overall, there's rarely a pairing of source material and director that works as well as this one... If only I enjoyed the source material, eh? So dark, so bitter, so edgy, so... nothing. I never think about this movie. When I do, I think of Mrs. Lovett's dream sequence and remember the good old days of "Big Fish" (2003) when Burton liked to use color.

"Alice in Wonderland" (2010) is one of my guiltiest pleasures in all of film. It is the reason why every time Disney announces a live-action remake, my ears perk up. If all of them were as wild, unhinged, original, creative, and inspired as this one... Well, I think Disney might not be fucking bleeding money right now. No one ever even mentions that it's a sequel to the original animated film. A SEQUEL, not a remake. Sometime movie-goers surprise me with how little they think.

"Frankenweenie" (2012) blows. I don't care how unique it is, I do not like it.

"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" (2016) is one of the funniest remnants of the teen dystopia genre. Like, it hardly applies, but is trying SO HARD that it's unbelievable. Also, props to Mr. "Black People Aren't My Aesthetic" for casting Samuel L. Jackson as a dude who eats white babies. (I do not mean that.) Seriously, this is proof that Burton, as a modern director, should no longer be taken seriously.

"Dumbo" (2019) is AAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAAAAHAHAHAHA I FUCKING HATE THIS DUDE HOLY SHIT

If I didn't mention, I haven't seen it. Yes, I know I skipped some big ones. I may watch them one day, but I am in no rush.

[maddie-grove]

I was never really on board with the “Bella is too generic and only functions as a blank slate for the reader to project on” criticism of Twilight, because when I read it as a teen, I specifically couldn’t get into the romance because Edward was so overbearing. Not even the creepy stuff like watching her sleep—I was willing to accept that as part of the heightened setting—but more the scolding and freaking out if she does anything he seems unsafe or imprudent. And the thing is that it totally makes sense why Bella’s into that, because Renée and Charlie both kind of suck in the opposite way. But my own mom tended to err on the side of being overprotective so I was just like “girl, why would you want a guy who thinks you’re too big a baby to go shopping by yourself?”

I’m not saying readers didn’t project on Bella, but. Like. I was in the Sweeney Todd movie fandom. Teen girls were projecting on Mrs. Lovett, a middle-aged Victorian woman who bakes corpses into pies. All because she had a Hot Topic-ish wardrobe and liked a guy who didn’t like her back.

#twilight #I think Bella’s kind of a self-insert but stephenie Meyer is a specific person

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Bracket has been updated for Round 2! Matchup list is in text under the cut. Round 2 will begin within a few days. The loser's bracket will begin after the main bracket concludes.

Betty Grof (Adventure Time) vs. Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Edelgard von Hresvelg (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) vs. Almalexia (The Elder Scrolls)

Maeby Funke (Arrested Development) vs. GLaDOS/Caroline (Portal)

Nico Robin (One Piece) vs. Helen Richardson (The Magnus Archives)

Nefera de Nile (Monster High) vs. Lady Barbrey Dustin (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Jennifer Check (Jennifer's Body) vs. Moira O'Deorain (Overwatch)

Artemis (Greek Myth) vs. Tomie Kawakami (Tomie)

Rachel (Animorphs) vs. Shego (Kim-Possible)

Tabitha Scarlet (Scarlet Hollow) vs. Morgana Pendragon/le Fey (BBC Merlin)

The Witch (Into the Woods) vs. Nimona (Nimona)

Klaasje Amandou (Disco Elysium) vs. Ianthe Tridentarius (The Locked Tomb)

Sailor Galaxia (Sailor Moon) vs. Lady Alcina Dimitrescu (Resident Evil: Village)

Vriska Serket (Homestuck) vs. Willie Jack (Reservation Dogs)

Galadriel (Lord of the Rings) vs. Charlie (Don't Starve)

Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond (Steven Universe) vs. Tokiko Shigure (AI: The Somnium Files)

Shion Sonozaki (Higurashi When They Cry) vs. Yuko Ichihara (xxxHolic)

Laerynn Coramar-Seelie (Critical Role: Exandria Unlimited) vs. Granny Weatherwax (Discworld)

Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights) vs. Starlight Glimmer (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show) vs. Jinx (Arcane/League of Legends)

Eva Ushiromiya (Umineko When They Cry) vs. Empress Phillipa Georgiou (Star Trek)

Paige Duplass (The Silt Verses) vs. Dr. Pamela Isley AKA Poison Ivy (DCEU)

Reagan Ridley (Inside Job) vs. Kalina AKA Shadow Cat (Fantasy High)

Power (Chainsaw Man) vs. Marcille Donato (Dungeon Meshi)

Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (House MD) vs. Fang Runin / Rin (The Poppy War)

Han Sooyoung (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) vs. Wu Zetian (The Iron Widow)

Emma Perkins (The Hatchetfield Series) vs. Nadja of Antipaxos (What We Do In The Shadows)

Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa) vs. Malva (Pokemon)

Vermouth (Detective Conan) vs. Eleanor (Do Revenge)

Asuka Langley Soryu (Neon Genesis Evangelion) vs. Leliana (Dragon Age)

Anthy Himemiya (Revolutionary Girl Utena) vs. Kyoko Sakura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

O-Ren Ishii (Kill Bill) vs. Gwendolyn Poole AKA Gwenpool (Marvel Comics)

Lappland Saluzzo (Arknights) vs. Dr. Harleen Quinzel AKA Harley Quinn (DCEU)

Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs. Rue Kuroha AKA Princess Kraehe (Princess Tutu)

Eve (Biblical Canon) vs. Ellie Williams (The Last of Us)

Marina (Sinbad: The Legend of the Seven Seas) vs. Sucre/Sugar (OFF)

Shodan (System Shock) vs. Halea Haumea (Phantomarine)

Arcee (IDW Transformers) vs. Wu Zetian (IRL History)

Miranda Pryce (Wolf 359) vs. Perihelion / ART (The Murderbot Diaries)

Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum (Adventure Time) vs. Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)

Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb) vs. White Gladys the Orca (IRL)

Doctor Carmilla (Doctor Carmilla and The Mechanisms) vs. Catra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Jasnah Kholin (The Stormlight Archive) vs. Medea (Greek Mythology)

Odin (The Bifrost Incident) vs. Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight)

Beatrice (Umineko When They Cry) vs. Any Female Praying Mantis (IRL)

Veronica Sawyer (Heathers) vs. Eleanor Guthrie (Black Sails)

Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs. Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate 3)

Noi (Dorohedoro) vs. Beatrix Kiddo (Kill Bill)

Rat God (Mad Rat Dead) vs. Petra Solano (Jane the Virgin)

Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club) vs. Cinder Fall (RWBY)

Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (M*A*S*H) vs. Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd)

Claudia (Interview with the Vampire) vs. Lady Eboshi (Princess Mononoke)

Entrapta (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) vs. Princess Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Samantha Groves AKA Root (Person of Interest) vs. Shanoa (Castlevania)

Makima (Chainsaw Man) vs. Raphaella la Cognizi (The Mechanisms)

Yennefer Vengerbeg (The Witcher) vs. Toriel Dreemurr (Undertale)

Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Carribbean) vs. Wanda Maximoff AKA The Scarlet Witch (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Mapleshade (Warrior Cats) vs. Gertrude Robinson (The Magnus Archives)

Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) vs. Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

Muu Kusonoski (Milgram) vs. Romanadvoratrelundar (Doctor Who)

Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. Yubel (Yu-Gi-Oh)

Ponyo (Ponyo) vs. Aubrey (OMORI)

Dr. Olivia "Liv" Octavius AKA Doc Ock (Into the Spider-Verse) vs. Helena George Wells (Warehouse 13)

Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. The Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2)

Nami (One Piece) vs. Lucretia (The Adventure Zone: Balance)

#poll #tournament poll #round 2

[mariasparrow]

Travel Through the Darkness FilipaMariaKecharitomene

Having just completed his second quest to awaken the Sleeping Princess, Link is now faced with the task of escorting her to the Castle. Charmed by her rescuer, the Princess herself isn't so sure home is even there anymore. Meanwhile, monsters are hunting the Hero's blood, and a Chain of Eight men are looking for him... Or in other words...the Chain meets Hyrule.

Chapter 1

Chapter Text

“A literary mystery, a damsel in distress, and his rival deposed.

If that doesn’t get him here then he’s not much of a knight in shining armor.” ~ Charlie Lovett

In the cold vault that was her bedroom, the arched windows still contained panels of blood red stain glass. Shimmering and timeless, thanks to the wizard's spell.

The one that both imprisoned and preserved.

Locked within this endless sleep, Zelda Zaranitsa of Hyrule, daughter of a King, niece of a King, sister of a King, could only recall hazy glimpses of a long dream.

Just one. Only one. Never truly beginning. Never truly ending as she lay upon her embroidered cushions, hands upon her stomach. Her shoulder-length hair had not grown an inch in her sleep; fresh and dark red as a never-bloomed rose.

Just a dream. And not a very clear one at that.

Behind her closed eyes, visions splashed against her mind like raindrops. Warping the landscape in a grim blur of death and malice. Over time it bloomed with colors. First there was only red, spilled in rivers across a dying land, painting the fires that consume it. The monsters that roamed it. The color of poisoned skies that spill acid rain upon crops.

Screaming people, desperate, hopeless.

The Sleeping Princess would weep, if she could.

Then, suddenly...almost inconsequentially...there is a speck of green amidst the destruction. Unfurling, growing, dispute the lack of sun, the lack of rain, the lack of help.

He is small at first, so small.

A green-shoot of stubborn life. Yet he grew. And all he touched grew green in his wake. Waking with hope, with faith, with endurance.

With courage.

Oh, he stumbled at times. He hurt and he bled red, oh so much red, until the cursed earth he walked on was sanctified with it. In her dreams, she gasped whenever his foes dealt him a wound, wanting to cower and hide her eyes as much as she wanted to reach out and bind the red flow, to stop it.

She can never get a good look at his face. She doesn’t know his name. Eventually though, the worse of the red, the cause and cancer of this land, yields to him at the end of his sword. The monster is sealed away within him, within his blood. It is the first time she tried to cheer within her dream, within the spell. Even outside the spell, her lips twitch in the faintest hint of a smile.

If that had been all, it would have been enough. She could’ve rested in peace, for the remainder of eternity.

Such was not her fate.

Four more seasons past with feel of old friends. They are her only companions after-all, in her frozen cocoon of time. She knows them well, favoring spring and summer the most, but still fondly remembering the other two. These brief flashes of the changing years that swept her mind though the magic is painful in its unteachableness.

Her glimpses are tangled with her memories of how things once were. It was hard to separate what was from what she longed to be. She does not grow, does not age. A horrible, awe-filled thing. The only company are the Shiekah who make pilgrimage to her, bringing the currents heirs to the throne to remind them of the past. 

She is so lonely.

Each time the Door creaked open, that fragile, stubborn hope fluttered, only to have its wings cruelly pluck once again. She slumbers on within the sleeping death, a frost upon the gentlest flower.

But not everything is frozen in time.

Out in the world...things are changing, old magic is stirring. Whispering "Its time."

There was an old song from her era. It was once declared that time made one bolder…that children grew older. The Princess’s young green-shoot…he grew older, too.  Grew strong and daring. As giving as an apple tree in autumn.

What else could explain the decision he made? When he accepted the quest to wake her?

Had the Princess been able to stand, even in her dreams, she would have fallen to her knees.

She never realized hope could hurt so much.

So much that it was nearly dyed red in color, with every dropped spilled by moblins and achmans and every other unclean thing. She fretted. So terribly, terribly afraid. It seemed an unequal thing, that someone should risk his life when it truly wasn’t a pressing thing. Her sleeping or not was not a matter of saving the kingdom, or the world.

No.

He was doing this solely to save her. That was the only prize waiting for him, should he survive the ordeal of collecting the Shards of Courage that she had shattered. It seemed like a meager thing, a Hero’s life for one girl out-of-time.

An unnecessary, unneeded, forgotten Princess.  

He had so much more to offer than her.

Don’t, she thought, pleaded, somewhere in the shifting murk of her mind, watching him. Watching him struggle, fight, bleed, die -honest to goodness die, dear Hylia. Die more than a few times, cheating Death only with spells and craftiness and strange little dolls.

Please don’t do this for me, it’s not worth it.

Of course, nobody can hear her. So deep is she within her dream, she doesn’t the footsteps echo through the North Palace’s abandoned halls, their owner exhausted and filthy and dizzy with triumphant. Doesn’t hear the door -the one Which-Does-Not-Open- swing wide, letting in the Hero she had been watching for...waiting for.

*~*

She doesn't hear the short puffs of his breath, his lungs unable to get enough air, aching as they were against his bruised ribs.

That last battle with his own shadow was one he will not soon forget. It had been a growling, savage version of himself, all his fierce will to live warped and twisted into something so dark and selfish, it had struck him as much as his enemy's sword.  He hadn't said much as they exchanged blows. But what the shadow had said, he wouldn't ever forget.

"I won't let you wake her!" the dark image had spat. "She's mine!"

Link had to admit, there had been particular venom when he drove his sword home for the final time, satisfaction when he watched the shadows hissing, cursing form vanish. He doesn't see his steps grow softer, more reverent, as he approached the blood red steps leading up to her alter. Gazing upon her figure, he was struck, once again, by the crashing wave of kinship he felt with this young maiden. Royalty or not, he knew something of the unfairness of being under a curse. Having it dominate your every hour.

Waking or asleep, he considered, before he straightened up determinedly.

He might be powerless to stop his own curse from chasing him for the remainder of his days, but such would not be her fate. Her fate he could change. He could give her life back to her. If she lived a good one, maybe she could live it for the both of them. It would be worth it, then. Every cut and bruise, every stab his shadow gave him. It would be worth it.

Setting his jaw, he squared his shoulders under their coverings of brown and green and leather and stood beside the Sleeping Princess, the precursor to the Legend of Zelda which bears her name.

Since he already knew a Zelda, he had taken to calling this royal maid Aurora, after a fairy tale told among the campfires of his youth. It had been his favorite, fascinating him with the story of the Princess as beautiful as the morning, preserved in time.

The stories never described what the maiden looked like, saying only that she was fair, but this Princess is more than lovely enough to fill in the gaps. She’s so small, white-skinned and delicate seeming. Like the summer lilies that the other Zelda, Crown Princess of Hyrule, had managed to coax from the recovering soiling in the royal gardens.

Her rich hair the dark red of certain kinds of woods. The ones that make good homes. It tumbled to her shoulders, matching the red tunic-gown which swaths her figure.

Not for the first time, Link wondered what the color of her eyes were.

Are.

He has visited her many times during this second quest of his. But Link has never touched her. It just seemed wrong, when she had no awareness of it. Or worse, if she had aware of it and didn't like it. What Princess would want to be touched by him?

An accursed forest rat, who broke more things than he fixed.

This time though, he couldn't help himself, the clever fingers of his right hand pushing the moss-soft tresses from her face, though he quickly stopped. His hands were stained with dirt and monster blood and gods-only-know-what. Normally that wouldn't bother him, but it was just so apparent in contrast to her fair skin.

He has no business touching her, ever. Raising his left hand before he could make a greater fool of himself, Link curled a fist, the golden might of the gods shimmering to life.

"Would you lend me your power?" he murmured; head humbly bowed. He made his wish. And the entire room filled with light.

*~*

The first thing she is aware of is light. White hot and blinding, it pulses gold against the blackness holding her captive. In her dream world she gasped, the shock to her soul paralyzing, burning, as the bonds holding her within the Eternal Sleep are broken with a breath of divinity. Then there is a voice, indistinct at first, but pressing in on her conscience, raspy as if unused, but growing louder. Growing firmer. Until -

“Your Highness.”

She felt her eyes flutter open of their own accord.

This is what an infant feels, the thought occurred to her, when flushed from blank nothingness out into the unknown.

She murmured, whined, muscles moving for the first time in unknown centuries. The light was too much, burning and all-consuming and never ending. It burned through more than the curse, it burned through her: her mind, her memories, her self –

“Princess,” came once again, more insistent now. There was warmth on her cheek, a stroking motion running in a line from her ear to her jaw. Up and down, repeating. She turned to it instinctively, lost in a sea of gold.

“Please wake up.”

It was a gentle command, but the power behind it was the final battering force that broke the hissing hold the curse still had on her. With a scream of rage, the spell shattered.

And Zelda Aurora woke up with a short gasp and a shock wave of magic that shatters the glass in the windows, shards of it slicing the bindings on the curtains so that they flapped freely.

Shocked with awareness, her eyes, deep blue as pure water, roll frantically in her head as she tried to take in everything. Gosh, was this what seeing things was truly like?

Everything was so clear! Vivid with defined features, making one thing from another–

Tall marble columns held up the arched roof, the torchlight casting flickering shadows around the room’s edges, the clipped tiles of mosaics and tattered tapestries hung from the walls –

“Thank Hylia,” she heard the raspy voice breath out, sounding like autumn leaves.  

Blinking, her raindrop eyes flickered towards its source.

It was a boy.

Well no, that wasn't right, not quite a boy, but not a man yet either. He had wide hazel eyes in a light tan face, his unruly brown curls coated with ash and blood. He stood at her side, looking at her, pale under a layer of grime. 

“W-who?” she asked, whispered, brow furrowed as she tried to recall, to think. She gasped in more air, greedily, the need of anything other than steady qualities foreign to her. She struggled to sit up, and the warmth on her cheek was suddenly at her middle back, helping her.

“I’m Link,” he told her, still wide eyed. Almost wild-eyed. “I was tasked with waking you from your slumber, my lady.”

“My…my slumber?” she repeated, parrot like, enunciating the word carefully. Viciously aware of every speck of dust and the location of every shadow, she kept glancing nervously about the room, expecting something foul to be lingering in the corners.

She found herself reaching for the young man’s – Link’s – hand. Holding on to it tight, when he willingly gave it, helping her to her feet. “How…how long was I sleeping? Where am I?”

She felt a flinch run though his body as he leaned back, shock evident on his slightly Fae features.

"You... don't known?" he fumbled.

She bit her lip, gaze dropping to focus on her hands, his were larger than her own, strong as tree branches, fingertips calloused from holding the many weapons dangling from his belt and pack.

"I know something..." she murmured carefully, hazy memory wafting around her, memories of what happened. "I remember the wizard. My brother. I remember refusing them the Power they sought."

Her vision stung as she recalled it: her older brother warped beyond from all recognition, shouting, cursing -

"Where is it?!"

"I d-don't know! I don't k-know!"

"Liar! He gave it to you! I know he did! Where. Is. It."

She swallowed the memories painfully, before it can consume her.

"I remember enough I know I must thank you," she gasped out, shoulders shaking under the red silk of her ancient bliaut. "T-thank you, H-Hero."

"Hey, no, no," her savior -Link- insisted, shaking his head. Hesitantly, he reached up and brushed away the tears rolling off her white cheeks, the golden triangles still shimmering on his hand. "I'm no Hero. I only did my duty, Princess."

"You saved me," she corrected softly, stepping closer, even as his eyes widen once again.

A gust of dry wind fluttered the curtains around them like the whisper of fairies. She came closer, limpid, soften all the more when his gaze darted away, swallowing.

"You are a real hero."

Determined to sink the message home, she placed a hand on his shoulder and leaned forward to kiss his cheek. At the last moment, Link moved his head to face hers, more denial ready on his lips when they ended up meeting her own.

Oh.

Oh.

He tasted like earth and sweat and smoke. And some other strange, boyish thing she couldn’t name. Yet, for all the awkward meeting of teeth, she couldn't say it was bad, for a very first kiss. They still pulled back rather quickly, stunned faces mirroring each other in the swaddling flaps of blue.

"We...we need to leave," Link finally said, voice raspier than before. He swallowed. "We...we need to get you home."

"Home?" she repeated, head tilting in such a way, it almost made him do something stupid. Like kiss her again.

"To the castle -the new castle to the south," Link explained, hurriedly. "Where the royal family live now. Its... your home, Princess. Its where you belong."

"Home," she said again, this time understanding the word, eyes lighting up like campfires with bright, timid hope. She reached out, willingly sliding her hand in his, liking it there. "Yes...please. I want to go home."

*~*

Unbeknownst to either the Awakened Princess or her Hero, the shock wave of magic didn't end within the North Palace, it echoed though the land itself, calling out the location of the Blood to every monster cultist with the means to hear it and the bloodlust to seek it.

So basically all, the tall man reflected lazily. He was a slender figure, his diet of dark magic insuring that his limbs never gain anything resembling flesh. His elongated fingers tapped a calculating pattern on the alter besides him, chains waiting to be fashioned to sacrificial limbs. He peered out from the uppermost level of his tower, the dry wind that proclaimed the Sleeping Princess' release billowing his black robes with divine purpose.

Shuddering with the enticement of a neophyte, he fingered the sharpest of his holy instruments, the one that he would use bleed the young Hero dry. Ah, the lad had proven a worth quarry, in the four years since he cast down Lord Ganon. He had dodged capture and destiny with a nimbleness that spoke of a fierce will to live. A refusal to surrender. 

It was commendable, one had to admit. And the High Priest of Ganon fully intended to reward the youth with a memorable death.

#linked universe #lu #loz #lu hyrule #lu aurora #ao3 #my fic #adventure of link

[thelinnmiser]

The Whole Cast For Musical Themed Sugary Spire (Musical Factory)

Pizzelle & Rosette: Sweeney Todd (MAINLY Sweeney Todd & Ms. Lovetts) Marble: Ratatouille (MAINLY Remy) Coneboy: Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (MAINLY Willy Wonka) Coneball: The Hunckback Of Notre Dame (MAINLY The Hunckback) The Confectis: Trolls Band Together (MAINLY Branch & His 1st Boyband) Painter: Lion King (MAINLY Scar) Gumbob & Bartender: Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (MAINLY Raggedy Ann & Raggedy Andy) Sheriff: Be More Chill (MAINLY The Squip) Applejim: Aladdin (MAINLY The Genie) The G, Stinky & Pizzano: Drewe & Stiles Three Little Pigs (MAINLY The Pigs AKA Sue, Sha & Bow.) Fake Pizzelle (Based On The Robot, Pretzel): Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer (MAINLY Rudolph)

#musical theater #sugary spire #sugary spire au #pizzelle #rosette #marble #coneboy #coneball #the confectis #the painter #gumbob #the bartender #the sheriff #applejim #the g #mr stinky #pizzano #fake pizzelle #sugary spire pizzelle #sugary spire rosette #sugary spire coneboy #sugary spire coneball #sugary spire marble #sugary spire confecti #sugary spire painter #sugary spire gumbob #sugary spire the bartender #sugary spire the sheriff #sugary spire applejim #musical factory

[sudeikisfms]

Below is basic information and a list of wanted and open connections for 𝘿𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙡 𝙅𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙞𝙠𝙞𝙨. Jason is currently MARRIED (not public knowledge) to 𝙆𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙚 𝙆𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙨, living between BROOKLYN, New York and LOS ANGELES, California. Please dm me if there is any connection on the list you would like to explore (most are open to multiples so don't worry if there's already a name beside it!)

—— character chart. ——

Full name Daniel Jason Sudeikis

Preferred name Jason

Nickname J Suds, Suds, Jase, DJ

Date of birth 11.18.75

Place of birth Fairfax, Virginia

Hometown Overland Park, Kansas

Occupation Writer, actor, comedian

Notable works Saturday Night Live, Ted Lasso

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 —— family. ——

Parents Daniel Sudeikis | Kathryn Sudeikis

Siblings Lindsay Ann Sudeikis (01.15.81) | Kristin Ann Sudeikis (01.01.79)

Children Otis Alexander Sudeikis (4.20.14) | Daisy Josephine Sudeikis (10.11.16) | Levi Joseph Kushner (3.11.21) (STEP-SON) | Elijah Jude Kushner (7.11.23) (STEP-SON)

Additional relatives George Wendt (maternal uncle) | Tom Howard (great-grandfather) | 40+ first cousins

—— romantic. ——

Current partner KARLIE KLOSS (Nov. 2023 Married. 02.14.24 - Not public knowledge)

Former partner(s) KAY CANNON (Married. 2004 Split May 2008 Div. 2010) | JANUARY JONES (Nov 2009-Jan 2011) | OLIVIA WILDE (Nov 2011 Engaged. Jan 2013-Nov 2020)| KEELEY HAZELL (Feb 2021-May 2022)

Exes that still have feelings for each other

Exes who despise each other

Booty calls/FWB

Quick hook up

Constantly flirting type of relationship (wheeling/leading on)

Publicity partner

Summer romance EVA MENDES (Jun 2011-Jul 2011) | SARAH DREW (Summer 2023)

—— platonic connections. ——

Childhood friends

Lifelong friends

Best friends HANNAH WADDINGHAM | BRENDAN HUNT | MARCUS MUMFORD | KYLIE JENNER

Confidants JENNIFER ANISTON

Ride or die

Platonic soulmates

Friends TED DWAYNE | BEN LOVETT | SETH MEYERS | WILL FORTE | SNL PLAYERS | CHARLIE DAY | JASON BATEMAN | ED HELMS | TED LASSO CAST

Brother/sister friendship

Parent-child like friendship

Familial connections ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY

Unlikely friends TAYLOR SWIFT

Seem like a married couple

Ex-friends

Neighbours that never talked, but acknowledged each other

Wingman/wingwoman

Were once enemies, but forgave and forgot

Were once friends, but moved to enemies

—— etcetera. ——

Drinking buddy

Love/hate friendship

Baby daddy/mom OLIVIA WILDE

Co-workers

Volunteer together

Frenemies

#𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙲𝚃𝙻𝚈 𝙵𝙾𝚁 𝚁𝙾𝙻𝙴𝙿𝙻𝙰𝚈 𝙿𝚄𝚁𝙿𝙾𝚂𝙴𝚂. #𝙳𝙾 𝙽𝙾𝚃 𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙰𝙲𝚃 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷 𝚃𝙷𝙸𝚂 𝙿𝙾𝚂𝚃 𝙾𝚄𝚃𝚂𝙸𝙳𝙴 𝙾𝙵 𝙷𝙸𝙻𝙻𝚂𝙵𝙼𝚂 𝚁𝙿𝙶

[empress-of-snark]

Tagged by @muffin-n-waffle (thanks!)

Three ships: Assuming this just means the three biggest ships on my radar rn, in which case obviously number one is gonna be Hellcheer cause I’ve been simping for them since last June. Number two is gonna be Connor/Abby from Primeval (I still plan on returning to that Regency fic eventually), and for number three, I’ll go with Mabel/Theo from Only Murders In The Building, since season three should be filming soon and I’m excited to see if they go anywhere with that.

First ever ship: The first one I ever wrote fanfiction for was Ron/Hermione, but the first thing I ever shipped was almost definitely Kim Possible/Ron Stoppable. Still have a very clear memory of watching the prom scene from So The Drama for the first time and being shooketh.

Last song: Super Trouper by ABBA

Currently reading: Harry Potter and Philosophy (various authors) and First Impressions (Charlie Lovett)

Last movie: My best friend is woefully uneducated when it comes to classic movies, so during her visit this past weekend, we watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. She loved it, and we also both walked away shipping Ferris/Sloane/Cameron as a polyamorous throuple.

Currently consuming: Nothing, actually. I should be having breakfast soon, but I woke up to a house with no power, and no power means no toaster, so it’s looking like cereal today.

Currently watching: My family is rewatching Friends (now mid-season five), and keeping up with new episodes of Abbott Elementary and The Good Doctor. I’m also watching New Girl for the first time (just started season four!)

Currently craving: Now that I know I can’t have toast, all I want is toast :(

I tag @televinita @finnskeeper @kateschechterxthorwasmyfirstotp @loubuttons and @cunnninghams !

#tag game #personal

[hbcsource]

@comicconlpool: COMIC CON LIVERPOOL GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - HELENA BONHAM CARTER Helena Bonham Carter CBE is an English actress. Known for her roles in blockbusters and independent films, particularly period dramas, she has received various awards and nominations, including a British Academy Film Award and an International Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Television Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Golden Globe Awards. Helena rose to prominence by playing Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985) and the title character in Lady Jane (1986). For her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove (1997), Bonham Carter received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in The King's Speech (2010), she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Hamlet (1990), Howards End (1992), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Fight Club (1999), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), the Harry Potter series (2007–2011) as Bellatrix Lestrange, Great Expectations (2012) as Miss Havisham, Les Misérables (2012), Cinderella (2015), Ocean's 8 (2018), and Enola Holmes (2020). Her collaborations with director Tim Burton include Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) as Mrs. Lovett, Alice in Wonderland (2010) as the Red Queen, and Dark Shadows (2012). For her role as children's author Enid Blyton in the BBC Four biographical film Enid (2009), she won the 2010 International Emmy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Her other television films include Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993), Live from Baghdad (2002), Toast (2010), and Burton & Taylor (2013). From 2019 to 2020, she portrayed Princess Margaret in seasons three and four of Netflix's The Crown. To get tickets to meet Helena please go to www.comicconventionliverpool.co.uk

#helena bonham carter #comic con liverpool 2023 #news #appearances #2023 #appearances: 2023

[dp-challenge-ts4]

Selena: “Amazing what a few hours of uninterrupted rest can do for a person.”

Charlie: “I take it you enjoyed your nap?”

Selena: “Yes, thank you so much for holding down the fort for a bit. I’m actually kind of amazed they were quiet that long. Are they okay? I should go-

Charlie: "The babies are great. And I can’t take all the credit, I did recruit some help….”

Selena: “Mrs. Lovett! I’m so happy to see you. It’s been so long.”

Charlie: “My mom flew in first thing this morning when I told her the triplets had arrived.”

Margaret: “I couldn’t wait another second to meet my grandbabies. And I have to say, I was thrilled when Charlie told me it was YOU that he knocked up. Never could stand that Sophia character.”

Charlie: “Okay okay mom, that’s enough. Dinner’s ready.”

#disneyprincesschallenge #generation 1 #generationchallenge #sims4 #sims 4 #ts4 #princess challenge #sims 4 challenge #simlit #simblr #gameplay #selenawhite #selena white #snow white #sims story #sim story #sims princess

[perseusloll]

My Sweeney Todd Cast head cannons if Harry Potter characters were actors

*Disclaimer: I’m not saying they are these characters in a literal sense but as actors and what role I believe they would have (based solely on vibes and some HP actors) so if you don’t agree please be kind<3

Leads:

Sweeney Todd: James Potter, Remus Lupin (Understudy)

Mrs. Lovett: Molly Weasley, Bellatrix Lestrange (Understudy)

Anthony Hope: Harry Potter, Dean Thomas (Understudy)

Johanna: Luna Lovegood, Fleur Delacroix (Understudy)

Judge Turpin: Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore (Understudy)

(Note: yes i put Snape as judge Turpin bc Alan Rickman is all I can picture when I hear/imagine Turpin)

The Beedle: Peter Petigrew, Sheamus Finnigan (Understudy)

Peireli (Davey Connor): Sirius Black, Regulus Black (Understudy)

Toby: Filius Flitwick, Ron Weasley (Understudy)

Crews:

Tech Crew: Weasley Twins + Bill Weasley

Tech Director: Arthur Weasley

Choreographer: Neville Longbottom

Casting Director: Hermione Granger

Costume Manager: Charlie Weasley

Costume Crew: Lavender Brown, Parvati and Padma Patil, Evan Rosier

Set Designer: Oliver Wood

Set Carpenter: Rubius Hagrid and Firenze, Ginny Weasley

Stage Manager: Percy Weasley

Stage Crew: Aberforth Dumbledore, Pomona Sprout, Colin Creevey and Arabella Figg

Ensemble:

Garrick Ollivander

Viktor Krum

Rolanda Hooch

Stan Shunpike

Rufus Scrimgeour

Madame Maxime

Phineas Nigellus Black

Pansy Parkinson

Draco Malfoy

Lucius Malfoy

Narcissa Malfoy

Walburga Black

Barty Crouch Jr.

Pandora Lestrange

Argus Filch

Marleene McKinnon

Lily Evans

Mundungus Fletcher

Professor Kettleburn

Dolores Umbridge

Minerva McGonagall

#harry potter #harry potter headcanon #sweeney todd #broadway #au #marauders #slytherin skittles #dramatic black brothers #regulus black #the black family #the cast is so chaotic #crew is trying to keep them alive #Snape is done with everyone’s shit #muggle au

[shinobi-illuminator]

Jinx’s Musical list—

Tomorrow (Annie) Beautiful (Heathers) Anything You can Do I can Do Better (Annie get Your Gun) Sisters (White Christmas)

Hard knock Life (Annie) Hello Little Girl (Into the Woods) Phantom of the Opera (Phantom of the Opera) These are My Friends (Sweeney Todd (Lovett)) Good and Evil (Jeckle and Hyde) My New Philosophy (You’re a good Man, Charlie Brown) Stay with Me (Into the Woods (Rapunzel)) Dangerous Game (Jeckle and Hyde) Dead Girl Walking (Heathers) Confrontation (Jeckle and Hyde) Last Midnight (Into the Woods) No Good Deed (Wicked)

Crime of the Century (Ragtime)

#arcane #musical #songs #themes #jinx #arcane powder #arcane jinx #jinx arcane