#louisa chase

[abstracteddistractions]

Louisa Chase, ‘Untitled,’ 2000-2021,

Oil on board,  

 W.24 in x H.24 in (W.60.96 cm x H.60.96 cm)

Courtesy: Hirschl & Adler Galleries Inc

#modernism #art #painting #abstracart #abstraction #abstract #louisa chase #forms #neo-expressionism #purple

[alder-iris]

im literally about to cum

#louisa chase #chaseposting

[diioonysus]

"Crying doesn't mean we're weak, it means we're human"

#artist is louisa starr canizani #artist is jacob jordaens #artist is stanislaw bohusz-siestrzecewicz #artist is chase william merritt #artist is charles cottet #artist is antonio ciseri #artist is henri gervex #artist is simon marmion #artist is henry daras #artist is joseph heintz #artist is henri lehmann #artist is unknown #artist is josefa de obdios #artist is lucas signorelli #artist is rembrandt #artist is john everett millais #artist is karl bryullov #artist is max ginsburg #artist is frederick william elwell #artist is walter william outless #artist is pietro antonio rotari #artist is peder knudsen #artist is jean beraud #artist is heinrich lossow #artist is carl rudolph sohn #artist is vlaho bukovac #artist is antonio piatti- #artist is unknown- #-artist is karl bryullov #artist is walter langley

[bethanydelleman]

I watched a TV show this weekend (Captivating the King) where a tree was planted to represent a guy by his brother. Then there is a lightening storm and the tree is the only thing hit and burns to the ground. Predictably, the guy is freaking out because God smitted (smote?) a representation of himself. So I think to myself, "Never plant a tree that represents someone."

BUT THEN, I'm re-reading A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott today where Rosamund (main character) watches a tree her dad planted at her birth get struck by lightening and if she had paid attention to the bad omen maybe she would have avoided some very bad stuff later (trying not to spoil). So then I think to myself, "No, no. Plant trees that represent people and pay attention to omens."

So now I'm torn. What do you think?

#planting trees to represent people #I thought it was so strange that I watched and read this back to back #It's still the weekend here by the way I live in Canada #Our government made up a holiday so we wouldn't feel so sad in February #captivating the king #a long fatal love chase #louisa may alcott #if your 40 tree forest burns down it's all over

[bellasbookclub]

BBC Read Along - A Long, Fatal Love Chase by Louise May Alcott

What time is it? Time for a sexy priest 🥵💦

This month's read along is Chapter 12 - Behind The Grating on the American March 13th and the Aussie Thursday 14th of March!

How does the read-along work?

Jump onto the Bella's Book Club Discord

Just here to listen? Go to our voice channels (at the bottom of channel list with a speaker icon🔊)

Connect your audio (we suggest joining muted by clicking on the mute button)

4. Want to take a turn reading? Let the mods know in the #read-along-chat channel before you click on over to the voice channels and join in the chin wagging!

5. Reader turns are usually approx. 10 minutes each (mods will keep track and ping you at the 1 minute mark.) Read along from your own copy or keep track via our livestream of the text.

Have fun!

#BBC read along #bellas book club #official™ announcements #read along #A Long Fatal Love Chase #Louisa May Alcott

[calypsobulbasaur]

I bound this month's book club book! There are so many technical flaws but I learned so much. Not to mention what a *scandalous* book this is - kidnapping, cliffs, shirtless priests, oh my!

#i had so much fun with the typesetting too #bookbinding #bellasbookclub #louisa may alcott #a long fatal love chase #my art

[bookwormchocaholic]

I just finished "A Long Fatal Love Chase," by Louisa May Alcott...

::spoilers under the cut::

I know fatal is in the title, but I wasn't expecting that kind of ending! Of course Philip died...But Rosamund?!?!?! She and Ignatius were supposed to end up together.

Louisa May Alcott, how could you do this to me?!?!?!

#a long fatal love chase #louisa may alcott #gothic fiction #thriller fiction

[darkvioletcloud]

*levi teaching his new mom how to use a gun properly before getting slightly frustrated and yelling "damnit" after Louisa scoffs she ends a perfect shot out of shear anger of hearing her new son curse*

Levi's gonna get chased with the wooden spoon for cursing!

Or... la chancla.

#louisa isn't hispanic but getting chased by a mom with her slipper is pretty universal #my mom did that to me #but it was a wooden sole slipper and it hurt

[eleftherian]

I feel like we should talk more about how bounderby is literally a pedophile

#he’s 30+ years older than louisa #who he harasses and chases after and then marries #it’s so gross #books #reading #booklr #josiah bounderby #louisa gradgrind #HT #dickensian nonsense #charles dickens #hard times #classic lit #my posts

[forthegothicheroine]

What to Read After Dracula

If you want to read more Stoker: Dracula’s Guest and Other Stories by Bram Stoker

If you want more foundational genre-defining gothics: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

If you want homoerotic vampirism that’s both intriguing and problematic: Carmilla by J. Sheridan le Fanu

If you want a gothic heroine fighting against the villain trying to possess her: A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott

If you want a protagonist entering an extremely fucked up old money home and fighting for their freedom: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia

If you want basically the same plot as Dracula but a lot more batshit and can put up with 1800s racism: The Beetle by Richard Marsh

If you want a modern take on Dracula that acknowledges the sexual assault subtext: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (note: this one is very hit or miss, people either love it or hate it)

If you want academics fighting ancient evil and an actual implied cameo by Dracula: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft (my personal favorite Lovecraft!)

If you want morally ambiguous mad scientists: The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson (and read the rest of the stories in it while you’re at it!)

If you want rootin’ tootin’ Americans fighting gothic monsters: Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard

If you want a gothic mystery with a spooky villain: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

If you want an implied polycule where a nerdy lady does all the real mystery solving: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

If you want the kind of vampire romance Dracula has become in pop culture: A Taste of Blood Wine by Freda Warrington

If you want something campier: Haunted Castles by Ray Russell

If you want something sexier: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

If you want something weirder: Blood 20 by Tanith Lee

If you want to read foreign bootleg Dracula: Powers of Darkness or Dracula in Istanbul, both creatively mistranslated from Bram Stoker

#dracula #gothic literature #dracula daily #books

[hrsrabbitcenter]

(San Francisco Bay Area) Buffy and Binx* are one month old sweet, friendly, curious rabbits, living in Berkeley, CA. Binx is mama's twin with brown ears and spots. Binx is adventurous and brave, the first one to explore new things, they love to run fast zoomies, chase mama for milk, climb to the top of their favorite beanbag chair and snuggle with Buffy. Buffy is a beautiful albino snowball. Their hobbies include trying to eat everything mom eats, jumping in the water bowl and snuggling with Binx. Buffy has gorgeous ruby eyes that are sensitive to bright lights and enjoys having a cozy dim place to relax. They will be ready to go to their forever homes when they are fully weaned (mid April). They would love to go to a home together or a home with other rabbit friends to play with. There will be a small rehoming fee, just to make sure they are going to a safe place.   If you can give Buffy and Binx a safe, loving home, reach out to Louisa at [email protected]!

*We are not able to tell the gender at this time we will update when we have more information but they are happy and thriving!  

#rabbit #rabbits #bondedrabbits #rabbitpair #rabbitlove #bunny #cute bunny #baby animals #bunnies #adopt #adoptable #adoptme #bunnylove #adoptdontshop #adoptdontbreed #adoptdontbuy #lagomorphs #california #bay area #sf bay area #oakland #berkeley #west coast

[ddarker-dreams]

☾ book recommendations: *✲⋆.

my all time favorites:

the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky

notes from underground by fyodor dostoevsky

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

frankenstein by mary shelly

the plague by albert camus

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson

others that i'd recommend:

break the body, haunt the bones by micah dean hicks

tomie by junji ito

uzumaki by junji ito

berserk by kento miura

the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson

i have no mouth, and i must scream by harlan ellison

the tell-tale heart by edgar allen poe

the cask of amontillado by edgar allen poe

rebecca by daphne du maurier

wuthering heights by emily brontë

dune by frank herbert

a shadow over innsmouth by h. p. lovecraft

the color out of space by h. p. lovecraft

the dunwich horror by h. p. lovecraft

crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky

demons by fyodor dostoevsky

the idiot by fyodor dostoevsky

jane eyre by charlotte brontë

animal farm by george orwell

do androids dream of electric sheep? by philip k. dick

a long fatal love chase by louisa may alcott

the stranger by albert camus

the metamorphosis by franz kafka

the trial by franz kafka

dragonwyck by anya seton

discipline and punish by michel foucalt

the castle of otranto by horace walpole

faust by johann wolfgang von goethe

the fall by albert camus

the myth of sisyphus by albert camus

the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde by robert louis stevenson

blood meridian by cormac mccarthy (do look into the content warnings though, there's heavy violence/depictions of 1840s-1850s racism)

the death of ivan ilyich by leo tolstoy

the dead by james joyce

the overcoat by nikolai gogol

dead souls by nikolai gogol

hiroshima by john hersey

useful fictions: evolution, anxiety, and the origins of literature by michael austin

no exit by jean paule satre

candide by voltaire

white nights by fyodor dostoevsky

notes from a dead house by fyodor dostoevsky

the shock doctrine by naomi klein

#i'll keep on adding to this as i continue reading!!! #recommendations

[j4m3s-b4k3r]

Slow Horses

Fave viewing over the past few years has been SLOW HORSES on AppleTV+. A spy show with all the intrigues of a John le Carré novel, but if George Smiley was written as a sarcastic smart arse and every other spy was a downbeat comedian. 

River Cartwright chased by one of ’The Dogs’.

The show focusses on spies who’ve disgraced themselves, but for various reasons can’t be set free into the wild. We are led into this espionage backwater by an earnest young spy who has become persona non grata with Mi5. His efforts to get back into the slick world of Regent’s Park puts him at the heart of the action in the series. Though he’s from Mi5 royalty (as his grandfather used to head the organisation) he’s banished to a shabby facility called Slough House. 

Lamb uses his signature flatulent power-move on Taverner. 

This kingdom of losers is ruled by Jackson Lamb, hilariously played by Gary Oldman. Famed for being a chameleon, Oldman is clearly having enormous fun here, playing this jaded old cold warrior, who doesn’t care any more. Lamb has let himself go physically, but is still mentally sharp enough to anticipate when he’s being setup. Which is often, and most likely by his Mi5 boss Diana Taverner (played with deadpan ice queen flair by Kristin Scott Thomas). Her disdain for the screwups of Slough House doesn’t stop her from using their services. These ‘Slow Horses’ are ostensibly kept on by ‘the service’ for menial jobs - filing and desk work - but they are sometimes caught up in intrigues too. Simply because Mi5 often needs fall guys.

Shirley & Marcus pinned down by The Tiger Team.

Mi5 is portrayed as a world of grasping political climbers. The higher up the political totem pole, the more damehoods & knighthoods there are. But ruthless sociopaths abound too. More than willing to sacrifice their underlings if it advances their own interests, or covers up a blunder. The traditional baddies of spy stories are here, but rather than the Russians or international terrorists, domestic political dirty dealing is responsible for most of the body count.

Min & Louisa surprise an intruder at Slough House.

For all their flaws, the Slow Horses have more decency than the ‘winners’. They are prickly & snarky characters, that are nevertheless likeable. A fave of mine is Roddy Ho, Slough House’s IT expert. His hilariously pompous dialog is brilliantly played to the smugly annoying hilt by Christopher Chung. Pint-sized firecracker Shirley Dander (Aimee-Ffion Edwards) and wily old school operative Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves) are a couple of other faves, but honestly, all the characters have their moments. 

Roddy analyses the kidnap photo of Standish. 

The show-runner is standup comedian & writer Will Smith, who manages to deliver laughs aplenty but also real drama. Main characters can die, and probably when you’d just learned to love them. We enjoyed watching this show so much that, after finishing the 3rd season, we RE-watched the entire thing, and were entertained even more the 2nd time. 

Jackson Lamb has an ice cream.

Having just exhausted all the viewing options available, Julia & I just began the book series that the show is based on, by Mick Herron. Though many details differ, the books are remarkably similar to the TV series, tonally. Added background details to the characters & plots make them enjoyable even after seeing the show. Hopefully they will feed us enough Lamb until season 4 drops at the end of 2024.

#illustration #reviews #tv #slow horses #jackson lamb #drawing #roddy ho #shirley dander #catherine standish #diana taverner #marcus longridge #louisa guy

[bethanydelleman]

These novels are taking up similar space in my brain:

A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Allcot

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Image description below:

Venn diagram, three circles, one for each novel. Short forms for novels mentioned above are ALFLC, MP, and TTofWH

In the centre with full overlap: The rake never reforms, root of the fundamental flaw is boredom

ALFLC & MP: Man has something wrong with his looks, the ocean

ALFLC & TTofWH: unwilling to let her leave him, she thinks love can change him

MP & TTofWH: final straw is an affair

Just ALFLC: fake marriage proposal

Just MP: refuses to marry him based on his morals

Just TTofWH: Has a child with the rake

#jane austen #mansfield park #anne brontë #the tenant of wildfell hall #a long fatal love chase #louisa may alcott #the rake not reforming #the love of a good woman can't change him

[bellasbookclub]

Did someone order a deep cut? 🌊🌩️

This March, BBC is reading a long-lost gothic thriller from Louisa May Alcott's flop era! Rejected for being "too sensational," this tale of intercontinental stalking, secret identities, literal cliffhangers, and sexy priests wasn't published until 1995—and now, like a virtuous maiden we've trapped on a yacht, it is OURS, ALL OURS! 🪦🥀

Discord discussion: Monday 03/18 8 PM EST | Tuesday 18/03 11 AM AEST

See you there!

Bella’s Book Club is an interactive virtual book club created by the Three Books One Plot podcast. Our monthly Discord discussions are open to all! More info here.

#official™ announcements #a long fatal love chase #the chase #fair rosamond #louisa may alcott #march '24 book #booklr #book club #bookblr #note that this one might be hard to find! DM a mod if you can't find a copy #see @volturialice via DM if you'd like content warnings #the big ones include gaslighting + abuse + period-typical racism

[calypsobulbasaur]

phillip tempest call rosamond her own name challenge (impossible)

#tag yourself im the impatient bird #a long fatal love chase #louisa may alcott #bellasbookclub