#chimes at midnight

[filmografie]

Favorite films watched in November 2023:

Anatomy of a Fall (2023), dir. Justine Triet

Chimes at Midnight (1966), dir. Orson Welles

The Landlord (1970), dir. Hal Ashby

Weiner (2016), dir. Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg

Entre nous (1983), dir. Diane Kurys

A Woman Like Eve (1979), dir. Nouchka van Brakel

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[lairreparablefugadeltiempo]

Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965)

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[yojfull]

I just did a reread of the entire October Daye series to look for breadcrumbs and hints in the earlier books towards some of the big reveals. The following contains spoilers for all books through An Innocent Sleep, so I’m hiding it all under a cut.

As of Book 18, we have found both Oberon and Titania hiding out in relatively minor characters in the San Francisco area, as well as Janet, and it’s clearly hinted that Maeve is also in the neighborhood. Janet was a housewife in Berkeley, Oberon was a cop in San Francisco, and Titania was October’s changeling friend Stacy. Upon rereading, there were more clues for Titania than Oberon or Janet, but there was also more time building that story. Accordingly, I think Maeve will have more breadcrumbs as well. The following is a list of potential candidates, and the arguments for and against them through the whole series.

There are clues scattered throughout, but especially in the last 3 books. From Be The Serpent - “[find] Mom lurking under a rock somewhere. Or maybe a pier. She always did like the water.” When we get to Sleep No More and An Innocent Sleep, the question is who has been shoved outside the main bubble, or is back when they should be gone?

Here is my list of candidates, in no particular order:

Lily

She’s a very rare type of fae, but her powers are extremely restricted by location. She’s strongly tied to water, and has been keeping an eye on Amandine and October for many years. Her court is one of the oldest independents in the region, but she stays out of politics. She also knows about Luna and her ties to Blind Michael. On the other hand, we’re pretty sure she died in Late Eclipses, which might be a problem.

Marcia

There’s a reason this seems to be the most popular fan theory. She’s a weak unspecified changeling who has been there from the very beginning, present at many critical moments, with often inexplicable immunity or reactions. She steps up to be seneschal of Goldengreen, she has no fear of the night haunts, she loves pixies, and resists transformation by Simon (One Salt Sea is a big book for Marcia). In Chimes at Midnight, she reacts to King Giliad discussions as if she remembers him. She is unphased by meeting multiple Firstborn (Ludiaeg and Amphitrite and Eira). Eira also fails to transform her, or she escapes the transformation somehow. We also never see a description of the smell of her magic. She does not appear in Titania’s mirror universe, but we don’t ever go to Goldengreen, so she may still be there. The only real argument against Marcia is she’s too obvious.

Marianne

We haven't met her directly in the novels, but the Windermere’s nursemaid comes up a number of times, saving Arden and Nolan from Oleander and death in the earthquake, helping hide them for years after. While she is missing, Nolan is convinced she is still alive, and brings Marcia to the Duchy of Ships to help him search for her. The biggest arguments come from the novella, Once Broken Faith, where Marianne tells a story with the sentence “because she was happy then, my sweet girl” in reference to Luidaeg, strongly implying Marianne has a sense of ownership. Titania is called “her father's other wife”, which again hints at Marianne being her mother.

Melly

Hob in Shadowed Hills, Kerry's mother. She fits the pattern of background characters close to October, but her inclusion in Titania's illusions makes it less likely.

Mary the Roane

Another background character with significant impact, but her level of contact with the Luidaeg as her mother makes her unlikely.

Julie

Another background character with strong ties to October, and changeling status, plus a transformation type. She does mysteriously vanish in the fight with Titania, but Seanan indicated in a Tumblr post that was an editing hiccup (or was that a false trail?) Her desire to kill October at various points is probably the biggest argument against her as Maeve.

January

One of the people Titania shoves out of the way in her illusion, but also, January *creates* things. She made the first cyberdryad. She died and was resurrected. October says “There had probably been some reason she needed Jan’s existence to keep her reality from crumbling, but i couldn’t think of what it might be”

Minna

Offhand mention in Sleep No More, she deposited servants at Dreaming Glass and vanished. Too offhand for such a major player.

Helmi

Maeve is a creature of the water and the deep, and the most maternal of the three - her presence in Saltmist still gives her visibility to the land, but keeps her safe in the depths, away from Titania’s purview. She's more background than some of the other candidates, with no real unexpected capabilities. Like Marianne, some of the strongest evidence is in the novellas.

My slightly more complicated hypothesis: much like Titania had multiple pasts, Maeve too has gone through multiple identities, in 1906, she was Marianne, the Windemere’s nursemaid, and she sacrificed that version of herself for their survival, becoming Marcia. This explains both why Marcia recalls Giliad, as well as some of the signs pointing to Marianne.

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Chimes at Midnight Orson Welles. 1965

Opening titles Pl. Concepción Arenal, 1, 05001 Ávila, Spain See in map

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[living400lbs]

"Half the things I’ve accomplished in my life have been because I was too pissed off to realize that they weren’t possible.”

- October Daye in Chimes At Midnight, by Seanan McGuire

#october daye #seanan mcguire #chimes at midnight

[kingsnorthportfolio]

#falstaff #chimes at midnight

[geraniums-red]

Seanan McGuire - Chimes at Midnight

Book 7 of the October Daye series

For a change this Toby Daye book doesn't start with anyone being kidnapped. Instead she tries to stop the sale of a drug that kills changelings (which in this universe are people with both fairie and human blood) which results in her being banished by the queen, and she deals with that by spending her remaining time allowed in the kingdom trying to find an alternative monarch.

My theories about Quentin's parentage from the last book turned out to be correct. I expected it to take more than one book to find out if I was right, but it's nice that I can feel smug about it.

The ending of this one was quite hectic, and although it cleared up the main plot, there are a lot of loose ends (and an escaped former queen) to be dealt with later, so it felt a little like it had just ended rather than having been neatly finished.

#review #spoilers #seanan mcguire #october daye #chimes at midnight

[sarcasticdolphin]

1/21

#Im a horrible procrastinator #So updates as I get through scenes of the fic. #Rudolf needs 21 #chimes at midnight #Tod got 9 for reference

[trevlan]

#chimes at midnight #orson welles #falstaff

[cinemajunkie70]

Happy Birthday in the afterlife to the one and only, Orson Welles!

#orson welles #citizen kane #touch of evil #chimes at midnight #macbeth #the magnificent ambersons #the lady from shanghai #the other side of the wind #the trike #f for fake #the stranger #the third man #movies #casino Royale

[book-quotes-and-moodboards]

Gravity had me now, and gravity wanted me to pay for my sins.

Chimes at Midnight (by Seanan McGuire)

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[biokam]

Chimes at Midnight (1966)

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[ulrichgebert]

Als wir es dann schließlich zu einem Heimkehrfilm schafften, stellte sich Falstaff als hervorragend passend heraus. John Gielgud spielt mit, Shakespeare, und am Ende gibt es eine Krönung eines nicht so vielversprechenden Thronerben. Man kann sich an der Schönheit praktisch jedes einzelnen Bilds erfreuen, zur Erinnerung daran, daß Film auch ein feines Erzählmedium ist, und, wenngleich in diesem Fall etwas windig, dient es auch noch als Vorbereitung für’s Musiktheater.

#Falstaff #Chimes at Midnight #Orson Welles #Keith Baxter #Jeanne Moreau #Margaret Rutherford #John Gielgud #Film gesehen #William Shakespeare

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Chimes at Midnight Orson Welles. 1965

Castle C. del Castillo, 16D, 02640 Almansa, Albacete, Spain See in map

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Campanadas a medianoche, Orson Welles, 1965

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