#classic-mystery-stories

[happythoughtswithstefania]

We continue our Series of Stories , staying with mysteries & Violet Strange. She’s a young and very brilliant sleuth, who solves mysteries in conjunction with her local detectives. They can’t figure it out, but Violet can, and she does. This episode – her second case - is called “The Second Bullet”.   Music by - vasyl_sakal__mystical-music-box-   We’re on our way to 200,000 downloads. Thank You for your wonderful encouragement and listens. We’ve now got a Supporters Club via Spreaker!  https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/positive-affirmations-and-audio-stories--1338752/support   Coffee fuels us up…. donations keep us going. Your support, comments and likes mean the world to us. Please pop over to Ko-fi for a coffee donation if you’d like to financially support our work. If you would like to get more inspiration and motivation, there are lots of inspirational, positive videos, messages, and artwork over there!     https://ko-fi.com/happythoughts Thanks!    This podcast is available on Spreaker, iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcast, Amazon, iHeartRadio and most podcast platforms, plus apps.  If you like what you hear, please share and feel free to leave a review on your site of choice.   You can also find us here: https://twitter.com/stefsvoice   https://instagram.com/podcastsbystefania   Looking for more inspirational, motivational items to brighten your day? I've recorded many Positive Affirmation MP3s for you on Bandcamp! Visit my Bandcamp page for more inspiration affirmations, meditations and stories for purchase and sample. Helping you live the positive lifestyle that you deserve.   https://stefanialintonbon.bandcamp.com  

#bedtime-stories #classic-mystery-stories #iheartradio-classic-mysteries #iheartradio-mystery-stories #itunes-sleepstories-forgrownup #sleepstories-for-grownups #sleepstories-on-spreaker #violetstrangemysteries

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

💙❤️Happy Holidays!❤️💙

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #wei wuxian #This is *specifically* fanart of the interfaith christmas cards featuring santa and his jewish rabbi husband spending time together #Why? Well as I was trying to think of things to draw for the season I realized there was another classic Blue and Red pairing to reference #They are going out for chinese food after this photoshoot. Kosher of course. #I want them to star in an interfaith hallmark film. A meet cute + save christmas + murder mystery in a small town kind of story #Or! Maybe they are just going to have a chill holiday break together and bake some treats with the extended family #So many fun possibilities about this bonkers concept I have no intention of making a bigger deal out of #speaking of Big Deals though; #If you have ever wanted to show appreciation for this (free) daily comics blog then I have one Holiday request: #If you have the means to - please donate your money to either a local food bank or a Yemen relief fund #there are so many people going without food and every bit helps. Truly would be the best holiday treat ever #and if you do not celebrate this holiday season…it’s also my birthday! You wouldnt want to let down the birthday cat would you? #(DISCLAIMER: it may or may not actually be my birthday. I may just be pressing emotional buttons to influence people to my cause) #(DISCLAIMER 2: I cannot vouch for any charities you donate to. Please be cautious and research properly before donating)

[clovus328]

Today at work I thought to myself:

“You know what would be a really good comedy? A murder mystery where everyone has killed someone and they’re all trying to hide it from each other!”

Then I realized… that’s just CLUE, I’ve just described the concept for the movie CLUE.

#movie #movies #clue #murder mystery #story ideas #writing #comedy #clue movie #cult classic

[seventh-fantasy]

galaxy-brained mlc take of the day: mlc is wuxia, yes and maybeee not exactly? it very much is a wuxia aesthetically, but it's actually - conceptually - xianxia story in the core. (this is different from suggesting that it is a xianxia show.) however xianxia can (or should) be considered a subgenre of wuxia, not its own separate distinct genre despite the idea of 仙 xian being fundamentally at odds with the idea of 侠 xia, because they both stem from the same belief. (as seen in mlc, it works with the conventions of traditional wuxia aka li xiangyi the sigu sect leader, to get to the real bits of xianxia concept aka li lianhua's story.) so, mlc is wuxia through and through, inside out. send tweet 🫡👍

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ok wait I can explain

so, this must be premised on the understanding that any discussion of "仙 xian/deities" in this context is only as its abstract idea of living a life distanced, detached from worldly, human woes instead of the possibility of immortality existing in mlcverse. (if you think about the deities in xianxia stories being basically human beings who have cultivated themselves into immortality.)

this is the explanation of xianxia as a wuxia subgenre (古仙武侠) in the baidu article of wuxia genre:

武侠中的侠，是脱胎于墨家“以天下为己任”的使命感；而仙侠的侠，通常是传达着“能力越大，责任也就越大”的朴素精神。侠乃入世，仙为出世，道教阴阳的无情大道（无情指寻求自我的不断体悟，以达精神的成仙，非没有感情之意）与武侠江湖的有情众生，即是矛盾也是循环，象征着太极之道，这也就是为何古仙武侠也属于正统仙侠流派的原因。

rough tl:

the xia of wuxia is born from the mohist ideal of bearing a sense of responsibility for the world

while the xia in xianxia focuses on the idea of "with great power comes great responsibility"

the idea of 侠 xia is secular. the idea of 仙 xian is beyond the secular - it is to pursue a life of suppressing/taming your own emotions (it does not mean to be completely removed of the ability to feel. it's a pursuit of self-realisation that makes one attain the status of a "deity" spiritually.) 仙 xian is then inherently at odds with wuxia jianghu's deep empathy and connection with the secular world, but it's also connected back to it. this is why 古仙武侠 is considered to be a part of the wuxia genre.

the relationship between xian and xia is conflicting because the former is all about distancing yourself from worldly issues while the latter necessitates an active effort to do something about them.

but it also means that both wuxia and xianxia acknowledge this weight of human emotions and connection to the world. it's just their respective responses and the outcomes they want that they differ in. what is the ideal person? wuxia says it's to be someone who can propagate and execute the ideal of doing something about this weight of your connection to the world, while xianxia says it's to learn to be at peace with that connection, and it's ok to not do anything about it actually - which might even be harder than trying to do something. (and focusing on your own cultivation can be a good thing for the world, in fact.)

with this, I hope it sounds less absurd that I'm connecting mlc's story to the concept of xianxia. lxy's life was a traditional wuxia archetype. (I've already harped on enough about how he fits into the quintessential mohist model of a xia leader.) what happens after, aka his journey as li lianhua, is the real story of mlc. it's a breakdown of that quintessential wuxia hero. it is a story in which the main conflict faced by the protagonist is to struggle with all the worldly woes including his own past and the cases' victims, in defense of the serenity he has found in the past 9 years. it is a natural battle to fight for someone such as llh because as long as you're still human, you will face the implications of human connections and the innate feeling of compassion and urge to do something about it (part of this, I guess, manifests physically in bicha breaking him down and the resistance to cure).

and relating that to an excerpt from an article discussing xianxia in relation to wuxia:

武侠剧的精神内核也是仙侠剧的精神内核，而“仙”实际上是实现新形式的“侠”的手段，由此扩展了“侠”的深度和其实施的时空范围。武侠之中的侠义精神，可以强调其自在，更强调其是自为的，前者是需要逐渐成长和觉醒的。然而对于高于人的仙而言，作为上位者的“侠”之精神，则应该是内在自觉且自为的。

rough tl:

the spirit of wuxia dramas should also be the spirit of xianxia dramas. xian should in fact be another way to bring out and explore the idea of xia.

the spirit of xia in wuxia can be an emphasis on the spirit of freedom, and even more so, the idea of agency and autonomy. the former is gained through growth and awareness. but for xian aka people who occupy a realm above the people on the ground, the xia spirit they embody should manifest in their inner awakening and agency.

it goes without saying that nobody is a deity in this show, and never will be. only in ep 40.5 it came so close to possessing that otherworldly, surreal edge, but that's all to it. deities do not exist in the mlcverse.

but but. it's interesting to point out in the ep 3 flashback when lxy walked through town in the aftermath of the sigu sect vs jym battle, commoners were heard describing it as 神仙打架 百姓遭殃 when immortals fight, commoners suffer. of course they didn't mean it literally but figuratively, that those people of wulin jianghu are high above, detached from the people on the ground. which is. contradictory to the idea of 侠 xia to begin with. so... it could even be interpreted that li lianhua living the spiritually "immortal" life embodied the xia spirit even more deeply than he did as li xiangyi the sigu sect leader, the "immortal" in the eyes of the commoners. actual immortals do not have any real attachment to the people, but a cultivated "immortal" does and is destined to feel and learn to deal with it over and over like llh did. it all comes back in a circle indeed.

#莲花楼 #mysterious lotus casebook #lhl #lhlmeta #my posts #dear diary it's (only) day 45 since completion and the symptoms are getting worse #i can imagine at this moment someone putting a hand to my forehead and ask me if i'm ok #not sure if this conversation about wuxia/xianxia genres is welcomed at all but ANYWAY. i just have a lot of feelings about cn stories #i'm discussing the genres in what i think are its barest forms rather than referencing to the ways they've manifested in popular fiction #esp since i'm not as familiar with many of the classic works on a personal level #AND there are so many other elements in play in these genres!! #personally not a fan of that definition of xianxia being 'stories about mythological figures like deities monsters demons etc' #just having deities monsters etc does NOT make it xianxia. that's just 玄幻/神话 fantasy/mythology(!!!) #an interesting distinction i learnt is that mythologies like 后羿射日 and 沉香救母 could be considered as proto-xianxia #simply based on the idea of xianxia being about deities + a sense of heroism #but they would still very much be classified as mythologies instead of xianxia. there's just a lot of overlaps i guess? #went down this rabbit hole a little and just word vomitting as I go. i may not be 100% right or accurate in my interpretations so.

[natjennie]

I already know I'm gonna be obsessed with falin's subversive version of haunting the narrative. as soon as I figure out what she has going on, I'm gonna be insane about it.

#because at least in the beginning she is the classic laura palmer haunting the narrative- the story is about her #the inciting action is in response to her death (almost. her eatening) and it sends the rest of the story on its way #marcille makes constant references to her and her influence and what she would think about things #but then also they find her and she is dead so they have to mourn for a minute and we get visceral closure with #the fact that they were hoping to find her alive the whole time and that's crushed now #and THEN she gets revived and comes back wrong #she is here but it's not right and there's a mystery #and now she's gone again- not in the narrative anymore- but it's still all about her #they have to find her they got her back but she's gone again. #it's so.... #i dont know youre deal yet but falin im gonna be insane about you i can tell #dungeon meshi #jennie reads dungeon meshi #dm spoilers

[psikind]

mysterious witch

#risk.png #ocs #kitsune #pathfinder #furry #artists on tumblr #reflections update - we got lost in the fae wild and ended up in a 'play' of a classic fantasy story #and my character was assigned mysterious but good witch :3 #this is also just me flexing that I can draw furries for comm clients fvJBHSFCHBHJ

[marsixm]

im trying to wrap my head around why i dont get enthusiastic about reddit style fiction (not a dig but a descriptor) like scp and shit like that, bc its not that i can’t enjoy them but i think its like… when stuff is framed as if it were real, but its fiction, its like, well KNOWING its fiction eliminates a huge element of the intrigue, but also, crucially, i like character-driven stories, or at least stories WITH characters. but i also like it when things are interesting for said characters to experience, like, i want the ghosts and monsters and conspiracies but i want the characters to be character-ing, yknow? not that i dont enjoy slice of life and… what would u call the first thing, non-character specific horror? idk? but i prefer when its both. its like i love kirk and spock but also i do enjoy watching them Experience Situations when i watch star trek. i enjoy the idea of spooky national forest monsters that arent real but experiencing it alongside a character would be better, and i want more trans and gay characters whose lives are clearly trans and gay but i want a plotline to unfold too

#i dont think im saying anything different or interesting im just #listening to a wendigoon podcast thats one of his things just #explaining a classic reddit horror story #and ig i enjoy the concept of this one more #but it leaves me thinking like #ok so why do i not wanna hear about this that much….? #and also why i dont rly give a fuck about scp at all when my friends tell me about it #or the mystery flesh pit thing #and its the same reason i didnt give a shit about 2017 IT but loved the 1990 mini series. connecting to the damn characters!!! #i guess i ought to give shit a try again i mean i did read creepypastas once when i was a teenager and enjoyed it #i had a similar thought thw other day when they announced another new star trek aos flashback movie #not that it explicitly said anything about this sort of stuff but like #i just remember hearing some ppl in a college course i was in talking about aos and like ohh the flashbacks to kirks childhood!!! #but in that ‘discussing superheroes’ way of like ‘oh this is good bc it checked the correct canon box!’ #like idk dawg i do enjoy fact gathering about characters i love but thats not why i love them? #ok that rly was a tangent i just dont vibe w scp. but if you put a mulder and scully situation in there with it. boom. id be there. ok???? #its almost like theres a reason this formula has proven to be so successful over and over and over again

[mariocki]

Alfred Burke puts on his best policing face as Parisian detective Inspector Maron, in Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!: The Billion Franc Mystery (1.6, ABPC, 1957)

#fave spotting #alfred burke #overseas press club exclusive! #the billion franc mystery #1957 #classic tv #public eye #abpc #an obscure series‚ even by the standards of pre 1960s telly. OSPC was a coproduction between Ardleigh Films and Associated British Pathé #(they of the famous news reels‚ and themselves a subsidiary of Associated British Picture Corporation). a year or two later and this #would probably have been made in house by ABC themselves‚ but the franchise was only a year old at this point and still finding its feet #the concept is simple but promising: each week‚ a member of the Overseas Press Club of America (a real and still extant organisation) tells #a tale from their careers‚ an unusual instance or shocking event that makes for good tv. these tales are true! says the narrator in the #show's opening moments‚ and these ppl exist! frankly that's something i take with a large grain of salt; whilst some stories certainly have #direct factual origins (there's an episode about a catholic priest going undercover with a gang of street toughs which ends with footage of #the actual figure that inspired the ep) but others are highly questionable (the first‚ about a Norwegian resistance fighter who has plastic #surgery and takes the place of a relatively high ranking nazi officer; i feel like that's something that would be better known‚ yknow??) #this ep is about a nazi plot to destabilise the French franc just prior to ww2; quite believable and certainly the nazis did dabble in #producing counterfeit money‚ tho the examples i found online all relate to pound sterling or latterly the us dollar‚ not the franc) #our journalist of the week is played by Lee Patterson‚ a minor film star in british b movies at this point‚ with swooningly handsome Anton #Diffring (who had fled nazi persecution himself) as the villain. Alfie's part is pretty small‚ he's just the french cop keeping every one #in sight and letting events play out (cue some wonderful Alfie cheshire cat grins). Patterson (and maybe Diffring) got to fly out to actual #real Paris to film some location work and establishing shots (a benefit of making a series about the OSPC was that they arranged flights #for cast and crew). poor Alf didn't get a holiday tho; his scenes are conspicuously studio based‚ even when he's meant to be on the banks #of the Seine... #so yes‚ a fun little series‚ even if (so far) the wide scope of potential stories does seem to favour ww2 stuff. good luck finding a copy #tho; it took me months of trawling to find a reasonably priced 2nd hand copy (Amazon currently have a copy for £79.99 which.. for 2 discs #is kind of insane). a victim of the price gouging which seems to have affected some of the lesser known network titles since their #dissolution. sad times for the fan of painfully obscure old tv.. if I ever learn how to make things be on a computer‚ tho‚ I'll happily #share

[dokushoclub]

In August I started reading 少年探偵団（しょうねんたんていだん）by Edogawa Ranpo, which was kindly lent to me by a friend at work. This is my review.

#my book reviews #reading in japanese #japanese books #children's book #children's story #crime #detective boys #detective story #Edogawa Ranpo #Fiction #free Japanesee reading material #Japanese classic literature #JLPT N2 #mystery #N2 #read online #study japanese #learning japanese #日本語

[l3monsoda]

I have this stupid romanticized fantasy where I have a teaparty book club. It's a normal book club that meets periodically but when they do it's a tea party and everyone sips teas and eats finger sandwiches and has fun being dainty while talking books.

This dream will never come true because it requires a set of impossible to achieve conditions. First a friend group or social circle of similarly inclined individuals large enough to pull from to get a group of 4-7 people big enough for interesting conversations. Second all members of said group would have to have the necessary amount for free time to actually read the book AND a consistent enough schedule to plan for and attend meetings on a regular basis. Third the only way to maintain sustainability for something like this is if either each member takes turns hosting or there is some kind of money pool and or distribution of tasks for setting up tea which is another time and resource factor that members would have to be able to afford.

And even if by some far away and out of reach middle class dreams miracle all these factors DID manage to come together it STILL wouldn't work because literally no one in my social circles like any of the books I do so I would have to read books I don't like every month or no one would join. Or more likely I'd try it for a few months just get tired of the book choice and eave and every one else would go on living my fantasy without me because just like how I never get the aux cord, no one is letting me curate the book club reading list.

#soda rants #it's a beautiful dream but alas #literally ever book I have ever recommended has always been ignored #no one likes my taste in books and it's insulting #I was too old for the hunger games dystopia bubble and too sick if the hary potter hype even before Rowling opened her mouth #i just really love fairy tale retellings classic scifi and cosmic horror #oh and victorian monster mysteries #and stories about super villains apparently? #that last one sort of snuck up on me lol #but like also 90% of the time I don't want to read out of the ya section #like let's read something to our age group folks #it's fine once in awhile for sure but I don't want to stay confined to the ya section when there is so much fun to be had elsewhere #let me have my tea parties and book talks and be happy! #is that too much to ask?

[happythoughtswithstefania]

We continue our Series of Stories , moving into mystery now. Violet Strange is a young and very brilliant sleuth, who solves mysteries in conjunction with her local detectives. They can’t figure it out, but Violet can, and she does. This episode is called The Golden Slipper. This episode is called "The Golden Slipper."  This is part 3 of the story.    Music by - vasyl_sakal__mystical-music-box-   We’re on our way to 200,000 downloads. Thank You for your wonderful encouragement and listens. We’ve now got a Supporters Club via Spreaker!  : https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/positive-affirmations-and-audio-stories--1338752/support   Coffee fuels us up…. donations keep us going. Your support, comments and likes mean the world to us. Please pop over to Ko-fi for a coffee donation if you’d like to financially support our work. If you would like to get more inspiration and motivation, there are lots of inspirational, positive videos, messages, and artwork over there!     https://ko-fi.com/happythoughts Thanks!    This podcast is available on Spreaker, iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcast, Amazon, iHeartRadio and most podcast platforms, plus apps.  If you like what you hear, please share and feel free to leave a review on your site of choice.   You can also find us here: https://twitter.com/stefsvoice   https://instagram.com/podcastsbystefania   Looking for more inspirational, motivational items to brighten your day? I've recorded many Positive Affirmation MP3s for you on Bandcamp! Visit my Bandcamp page for more inspiration affirmations, meditations and stories for purchase and sample. Helping you live the positive lifestyle that you deserve.    https://stefanialintonbon.bandcamp.com

#bedtime-stories-for-grownups #classic-mystery-stories #iheart-radio-mystery-stories #itunes-sleepstories-for-adults #spotify-motivational-podcasts #spotify-sleepstories-foradults #spreaker-motivational-podcasts #spreaker-sleep-stories #violet-strange-mysteries

[byrdstrolls]

we might be taking a bizzare plot detour to go full columbo mode on this blog lads

#im writing #what is shapping up to be #a three part little detective/mystery story #the people in the case won't be heard about again #but i may keep the detective and switch out the cases/trolls he's working with #full classic detective vingette style #I am having the time of my life btw #i wrote so much my hand hurts today #robin rambles

[uwudonoodle]

In every haunted house story, the house is it's own character. Look at this house from Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. I miss black and white cinematography.

#hush hush sweet charlotte #bette davis #horror #haunted house #southern gothic #gothic horror #black and white #black and white movies #classic movies #haunted house stories #classic horror #ghost stories #murder mystery #olivia de havilland #agnes moorehead #scary movies #there's something about the 60's black and white haunted house movies #they're the most beautiful horror #staircase #bette davis is the original scream queen #scream queen #scream queens

[thisisnotacreativeusername]

i think 10 is actually so much like the 5th doctor its insane that there arent more 5th doctor fans

#5 literally put on some glasses and licked some mysterious goop from a cave wall #it was magical #he had a batshit regen story where he was put through hell and back #he has some moments that feel like theyd fit perfectly into a 10 episode #13 is also very much like 5 #mine #doctor who #classic who

[flythesail]

I'm pretty confident that by the end of Nancy Drew, my season ranking is going to be 2, 4, 1, and 3 from most to least favorite.

#s2 just has too many iconic episodes + the nostalgia factor to beat it #but s4 has given me so many new favorite episodes #and i'm really liking the overall plot too #s3 i dont think was as a strong #particularly losing 5 episodes had to have hurt it #s4 pacing feels a lot better though #i do love s1 too #the tiffany and lucy mysteries are absolute classics #yet it also takes time for the characters to settle into their dynamics #as much as im dreading the end of nd i am looking forward to a rewatch from the beginning #and forever grateful we get a complete story #flythepost

[howifeltabouthim]

I wish the right man could be found; but it seems as far off as ever.

Ellen Wood, from East Lynne

#when's it gonna be my turn #searching #looking for love in all the wrong places #still searching #suspects #mystery #the one #story of my life #interminable #inspo #epigraph #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #classics #ellen wood #east lynne