I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything.
-- Karen Hesse
(Lyon, France)
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Babette's Feast (1987). During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.
Just so sumptious and brimming with love. It's not hard to see why this is considered one of the best food films of all time, but it was the love stories within it that just hit me in the right spot. It's beautifully acted and tenderly told, and leans into the idea that not every love story is consumated or requited, but it doesn't mean they're not felt. Just a really, really beautiful film. 8/10.
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How dare the nobles talk trash about Ciel in his decoration ceremony right in front of his aunt? Isn't she supposed to be a scary monstrous woman who scares everyone away, not just the kids and servants?
The Kuro fandom’s view of Frances:
Frances actually in the story:
comes visit our!Ciel on his birthday
organizes a hunting game so that he won’t think about Madam Red passing away recently or his family being annihilated on that same day a few years ago
allows Lizzie to visit our!Ciel whenever so that he’s not entirely isolated
invites him over on a vacation cruise meant to last 3 weeks so that he’d take a break from the Watchdog work
may have known the whole time he was the “spare”
taught our!Ciel what it means to counterattack after your enemy’s done the first move
cares a lot about her family and the reason she’s strict with them is because their family is targeted by many foes and she saw her mom, possibly her dad, and more recently her brother and sister-in-law dying because of it
Additionally, she protected with her skills many people unrelated to her against the Bizarre Dolls during the Campania incident
Frances described by Yana [x][x] :
“she’s a cool and kind mother, even though she’s strict. [Elizabeth] looks up to her and wants to become like her.
[Frances] is the woman [Elizabeth] looks up to, that’s why she imitates her mother’s hairstyle a bit”
So, NO, Anon, Frances is strict because she wants her family to survive, but she’s not a freaking monster who makes everyone run away in the other direction.
Haters gonna hate and that’s precisely your answer to the scene you were asking about.
Sheesh.
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potential iw24 matches that make me go 🤔🧐, part 2:
ruud-thompson/de miñaur final: okay well this is definitely not gonna happen but. both jordan thompson and adm are on the opposite side of the draw as casper, so technically we could get a repeat of either mexican final where casper lost to an australian guy. or, fuck it, ruud-kokkinakis final. just throw another aussie in there.
mensik-shelton 2R: let's fucking goooo, 6'4" big servers w/all that energy and the guts to try for any shot?? PLEASE give it to me
tabilo-báez 3R: it's not gonna happen bc tabilo will run into fritz in the 2R, but a rematch of the santiago final would be funny
fuck it, shapo-nadal 3R: set tumblr on fire (this is assuming rune flops out really hard)
(serious time) khachanov-jarry 3R: sounds interesting! khachanov leads their h2h 2-0 but they've only played on clay, and only once in the last four years
tiafoe-tsitsipas 3R: or, one of us needs a win. frances baby this is yoursss just act like it
paul-humbert 3R: two of my sleeper faves! they've only played once back in 2018. they've both already won titles this year... i genuinely dunno who’d come out of this
wta “analysis” here
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let's settle this, I genuinely want to know. there are many who might be retired or I just forgot. let's go girls
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Numéro France, June 2009.
Ph. Michael Thompson
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Amanda Moore by Karen Collins
- Numero France, March 2002
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Part 2: Interview with Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
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