#marlowe sidney

[athenswrites]

Marlowe Sidney [NYTF]

Councilor Marlowe Sidney of the Athens Zone of Safety was the most intriguing member of the Council to Piers. At 29 years old, they were the youngest, yet had already served for almost 10 years. [...] They seemed quirky and laid back though, plus they pushed progressive social policies paired with economically conservative policies, which Piers appreciated. However, the amount of time they spent in the Lab with Dr. Panya was alarming. [...] Piers wasn’t sure if they could count on Sidney actually showing up to meetings. (Knight of Dawn, Chapter 5)

Quick Facts

Full Name: Marlowe Jason Silas Sidney

Pronouns: they/xe (in context I use a lot more they to differ Marlowe from Dr. Panya)

Title: Councilor of the Athens Zone of Safety; Blessed Heir

Gender: Nonbinary

Sexuality: Lesbian

Birthday (Age at start): November 3rd, 2181 (29)

Parents: The Chancellor Silas Sidney, Lorelei Levine (stepmother)

Siblings: [REDACTED]

Notable physical features: tall (like 6'10" tall), either looks like mega-gay or the straightest man you've ever seen (depending on the hair)

Personality: "They do get a bit quirky at night", little arrogant, determined, friendly, inquisitive, helpful, awkward in nonpolitical situations

Extended Intro...

Like Piers says, Councilor Marlowe Sidney of the Athens Zone is the youngest of the Councilors. They often serve as a mirror to Piers' own experiences. Marlowe is the Blessed Heir, the oldest child of the now-Chancellor of Athens and next in line to serve as the dictator/cult leader of the former college town. They grew up with their father and stepmother, and eventually their five younger half-siblings. Throughout their childhood, Marlowe was given speech after speech and lecture after lecture about their purpose, who'd they'd become, who they were expected to be. Silas always pushed them, and Marlowe deeply fears disappointing him. Marlowe is not out to their family back home, and often wears a wig when they are. Upon Chancellor Cosmo's sudden disappearance, and Silas's rise to the position, Marlowe was sent to Atlanta to serve as Councilor at the ripe age of 19. It was a culture shock to them, a change from the sheltered and cult-led childhood they'd experienced. In all the chaos of learning how to do things the "normal" way, Marlowe met Dr. Panya, a research scientists who'd left Athens. Xe understood their struggles to fit in and their interests in genetic research, and the two quickly became close friends. Councilor Sidney can usually be found in one of two places: In a meeting in the Forrest Room or down in the lab, dissecting corpses with Dr. Panya. Or alternatively, with their girlfriend that no one else is supposed to know about (JK it's Gretel).

WIP INTRO

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[heartfullofleeches]

Milk Hybrid Real Names

Just a list of the hybrids and their names because I felt like it. Some are undecided and listen as such

Eggnog (they/them) - Elisha

Screamsicle (they/them) - Ollie

Rootbeer (he/him - Riley

Strawberry (he/they) - Stevie

Spice (he/they) - Sidney

Milk Tea (he/him) - Taylor

Cotton Candy (they/them) - Cobi

Vanilla (she/her) - Vivian

Banana (she/they) - Bailey

Cherry (she/her) - Cherri

Apple (they/them) - Almila

Mint (they/them)- Milo

Marshmellow (they/them) - Marley/Marlow

Peach (she/her) - Paige

Apricot (he/him) - April

Licorice (he/him) - Just call him L

Oat (she/her) - [unknown]

Blackberry Milk (she/her) - Blake

Angel Milk (he/they) - Angie

Milk Slime/Condensed Milk (he/she) - Carden

Milk (she/her) - Milicent

#Milk farm tag #yandere oc #yandere hybrid

[acaciapines]

with every single episode of dndads that comes out i become more and more convinced that sin triangle by sidney gish is THE scary marlowe character song like this song has it ALL. like in this one song we have:

“two faced bitches never lie / so therefore i never lie”

“and maybe i wanna see him / but then again i’m an isolationist / and on an accident i’m like japan / before they went and traded stuff to other lands”

“i don’t know what to say / a sickness by another name / wouldn’t be sweet either but with luck / it would at least like not suck”

and then the whole section about personality like. oh my god. every episode that releases the animatic in my head to this song becomes more and more filled out and w ep 31 i feel like scary’s arc is at a place where the animatic COULD work and fit the entire song and. screams. scary marlowe you are everything to me.

#chatter #dndads #dungeons and daddies #SCARY AND LINK. THEY ARE SO. #i don’t post a whole lot about dndads #and i don’t know anybody else who listens #SO ITS JUST ME ROTATING EACH EPISODE IN MY BRAIN #god. ive been thinking about this weeks episode since i listened to it #dndads s2 hits so hard oh my god #if i could draw this animatic would be legendary

[kyda]

ieri ho scritto al prof di letteratura russa per comunicargli la mia quasi unica idea per la prova finale e sto ancora aspettando risposta. non mi sento completamente in grado di scrivere chissà che, forse non credo abbastanza in me stessa come al solito, o forse davvero non ne sono capace. stamattina ho cominciato a studiare letteratura inglese 2 per l'appello di febbraio, ed è ironico che mentre mi dico che non sarò capace di scrivere niente per la prova finale penso anche che non sono il tipo di persona che viene bocciata da quella professoressa, ora che ho capito com'è avendo avuto io stessa un'esperienza con lei senza dovermi solo basare sui racconti di corridoio degli altri studenti. mi lascia sempre senza parole notare come a volte io mi senta un genio e altre, invece, la persona più stupida del pianeta. mi fa sentire un po' meglio comunque, finalmente, dedicarmi a qualcosa di nuovo. ho iniziato a leggere i capitoli assegnati su un libro intitolato the literature of terror e finalmente posso dedicarmi a scrivere qualcosa su jane eyre, frankenstein e dr jekyll and mr hyde, posso continuare a leggere dracula e capire di che parla wide sargasso sea e togliermi dalla testa shakespeare e le interpretazioni degli studi post-coloniali, le trame e date e significati di ogni sua opera (non othello) e sidney e spenser e MILTON (ma mai marlowe che è stato il mio preferito) e le migliaia di domande possibili che avrei dovuto considerare come possibili domande d'esame e tutti quei quaranta autori con rispettive opere e date di quei tre secoli di storia che ho perso la vita a studiare per sentirmi fare una sola domanda superficiale su uno di essi ma nel dubbio dovevo sapere tutto. ora che me faccio di tutte quelle informazioni? scivoleranno via dalla mia mente, tutti i dettagli andranno persi e fra un anno non avrò più niente che non sia una conoscenza generale dell'argomento. che spreco

[byneddiedingo]

Richard Widmark in Night and the City (Jules Dassin, 1950)

Cast: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, Herbert Lom, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Mike Mazurki, Charles Farrell, Ada Reeve, Ken Richmond. Screenplay: Jo Eisenger, based on a novel by Gerald Kersh. Cinematography: Mutz Greenbaum. Art direction: C.P. Norman. Film editing: Nick DeMaggio, Sidney Stone. Music: Franz Waxman. 

Bosley Crowther of the New York Times called Jules Dassin's Night and the City "a pointless, trashy yarn," "a turgid pictorial grotesque," "a melange of maggoty episodes," and a "cruel, repulsive picture of human brutishness." It makes you want to run right out and see it, doesn't it? Crowther today is generally regarded as an old foof, but Night and the City is just a little too dark to be credible, and some elements of it -- such as Richard Widmark's over-the-top performance and the expressionistic camera angles of cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum (billed as Max Greene) -- verge on film noir self-parody. Still, the great energy in Night and the City often reminds me of Dickens's forays into the underworld -- the titular city is London -- especially when it comes to character names. The chief villain (Francis L. Sullivan, imitating Sydney Greenstreet) is a Mr. Nosseross -- you almost want his given name to be Rye, but it's Philip -- and there's a minor character with the über-Dickensian name of Fergus Chilk. Widmark plays Harry Fabian, whose life is a continuous hustle, trying to gather enough money to finance his various get-rich-quick schemes. His long-suffering girlfriend, Mary Bristol (Gene Tierney, in a smaller role than her billing suggests), is a singer in a clip joint run by the Nosserosses -- Philip and his wife, Helen (Googie Withers). Eventually, Harry overreaches by trying to loosen the hold on the pro wrestling exhibition racket in London held by Kristo (Herbert Lom), whose star wrestler is known as the Strangler (Mike Mazurki). Harry cons an honest old Greek wrestler named Gregorius (Stanislaus Zbyszko) into staging a bout between Gregorius's protégé, Nikolas of Athens (Ken Richmond) and the Strangler, but everything goes to hell when Nosseross withdraws his promised financial support. There is a great wrestling scene in which Gregorius himself takes on the Strangler, who has broken Nikolas's wrist. Gregorius wins, but dies of a heart attack afterward, one of the many deaths the movie accumulates. The film makes great atmospheric use of its London setting, which was necessitated because Dassin was about to be blacklisted in Hollywood -- it's to the credit of 20th Century Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck that he warned Dassin of this and, when Dassin decided he would seek work in Europe, allowed him to make the film in London.

#Night and the City #Jules Dassin #Richard Widmark

[howardhawkshollywood]

The Big Sleep

Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946), photographed by Sidney Hickox. Sid had 268 cinematography credits from 1916 to 249 episodes of The Andy Griffith Show and 78 episodes of Mayberry RFD (1960-71). He also photographed 15 episodes of I Love Lucy (1956-57).

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#big sleep #humphrey bogart

[coffee-n-bagels-comic-universe]

Lucifarians: A Family Forged: Bios (1980) Sydney Maxwell / Syd Lucifarian

"My masterpiece of destruction isn't complete yet."

Name

Full Legal Name: Sydney Fawn Maxwell

First Name: Sydney

Meaning: Variant of the surname 'Sidney', originally derived from place names in England meaning 'Wide Island', from Old English 'Sid' 'Wide' and 'Eg' 'Island'.

Pronunciation: SID-nee

Origin: English

Middle Name: Fawn

Meaning: From the English word 'Fawn' for a young deer.

Pronunciation: FAWN

Origin: English

Surname: Maxwell

Meaning: From a place name meaning 'Mack's stream', from the name 'Mack' (A short Scandinavian name 'Magnus', a Late Latin name meaning 'Great'.) combined with Old English 'Wille' 'Well, Stream'.

Pronunciation: MAKS-wehl

Origin: Scottish

Ring Name: Syd Lucifarian, Wrath

Commentary Nickname: The Rebel

Nicknames: Syd, Short-Stack

Titles: Miss

Characteristics

Age: 20

Gender: Female. She/Her Pronouns

Nationality: American

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: June 18th 1960

Sexuality: Straight

Religion: Atheist

Native Language: English

Known Languages: English, Italian, Hebrew, Spanish, Chinese

Relationship Status: Single

Astrological Sign: Gemini

Entrance Music: 'Highway To Hell' - AC/DC (1980-)

Voice Claim: Ally Sheedy

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Current Location: Unknown

Hometown: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Appearance

Height: 5'0" / 152 cm

Weight: 100 lbs / 49 kg

Eye Colour: Heterochromatic Green & Gray

Hair Colour: Dark Auburn

Hair Dye: Mostly Dyed Bright Red

Body Hair: N/A

Facial Hair: N/A

Tattoos: (As of Jan 1980) 4

Piercings: Ear Lobes (Both, Triple), Helix (Both, Triple), Eyebrow (Both), Navel

Scars: Scars Over Her Back, Arms, Legs & Chest

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Smoker, Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None Diagnosed

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: Skull Lucifarian, Ven Lucifarian, Bel Lucifarian, Pat Lucifarian, Cas Lucifarian, Hel Lucifarian, Eve Lucifarian, Lou Albano, George Steele

Enemies: Moolah, Wendi Richter, Mr Fuji, Lord Alfred Hayes, Big John Studd, Don Muraco, Mike Rotundo, Iron Sheik

Closest Confidant: Sherry Maxwell

Mentor: Stephen Maxwell

Significant Other: None

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Stephen Maxwell (56, Father), Sherry Maxwell (55, Mother, Née Steele)

Parents-In-Law: None

Siblings: Sutton Maxwell (35, Brother), Sunny Meadows (32, Sister, Née Maxwell), Sunday Maxwell (29, Brother), Storm Moss (26, Sister, Née Maxwell), Sparrow Maxwell (23, Brother), Sinclair Maxwell (17, Brother), Silver Maxwell (14, Sister), Shannon Maxwell (11, Brother)

Siblings-In-Law: Seven Maxwell (36, Sutton's Wife, Née Marsh), Sequoia Meadows (33, Sunny's Husband), Scout Maxwell (30, Sunday's Wife, Née Moore), Sawyer Moss (27, Storm's Husband), Salem Maxwell (24, Sparrow's Wife, Née Marlow)

Nieces & Nephews: Sage Maxwell (15, Nephew), Sloan Maxwell (12, Niece), Sidney Maxwell (9, Nephew), Shirley Maxwell (6, Niece), Sheridan Maxwell (3, Nephew), Shelley Meadows (12, Niece), Shelby Meadows (9, Nephew), Shaye Meadows (6, Niece), Shawn Meadows (3, Nephew), Selby Maxwell (9, Niece), Shanon Maxwell (6, Nephew), Sevyn Maxwell (3, Niece), Schuyler Moss (6, Nephew), Santana Moss (3, Niece), Shae Maxwell (3, Nephew)

Children: None

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: Hellview

Trainer: Skull Lucifarian

Managers: Skull Lucifarian

Wrestlers Managed: None

Debut: 1978 (WWF Debut: 1980)

Retired: N/A

Wrestling Style: Street Fighter

Stables: Daughters of Darkness (1978-)

Teams:

Family Fighters (Skull & Syd)

Violet Offenders (Ven & Syd)

Twisted Steel & Sex Appeal (Bel & Syd)

The Wild Things (Pat & Syd)

Twisted Sisters (Cas & Syd)

The Phoenix & The Phantom (Hel & Syd)

The Valkyries (Eve & Syd)

Regular Moves: Kick to the Midsection, Diving Leg Drop, Forearm Smash, Diving Splash, Chair Shot, Jumping Knee Drop, Pump Handle Slam, Dropkick, Diving Back Elbow Drop, Berserker (Diving Knee Drop)

Finishers: Ripped Apart (Double Leg Slam), Son of Sam (Sitout Suplex Slam)

Refers To Fans As: The Wrathful, The Wrathful Ones

Heel or Face: (As of Jan 1980) Heel

#L.A.F.F #Lucifarians: A Family Forged #Lucifarians #Lucifarian #original character

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Patchwork Poem “To My Love: Cuddie” as Elizabethan

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Patchwork Poem “To My Love: Cuddie” as Elizabethan

Elizabethan poetry was the body of poetry written during the period of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The general characteristics of the poetry written during the period included a thematic focus upon intense feelings conveyed by the poets and certain rhyming schemes that are quintessentially shown in sonnets. One patchwork written by XXX  named “To My Love: Cuddie” made of poetry from the Elizabethan period could to some degree show the characteristics of Elizabethan poetry, since it adopts the most popular theme at the time, love, conveys intense feelings   and uses a particular rhyme scheme.

“To My Love: Cuddie” in analysis is characteristic of Elizabethan poetry due to its thematic focus on love and the integration of love with pastoral and religious descriptions. The patchwork poem is a love poem because it adopts many lines from the love poems of the age, such as “Come live with me and be my love”  from Christopher Marlowe, and “Eternal Love, maintain thy life in me.” from Sir Philip Sidney. Besides, it is supposedly written to a lover “Cuddie”, and to the profess the love that the poet has towards the person. In the line “Come live with me and be my love”, the poet declares his love passionately to his lover Cuddie, and this love is not only passionate, but also eternal, as the line “Eternal Love, maintain thy life in me” suggests. Immediately, the poem uses “So long lives this, and this gives life to thee” to add to the power of the eternal love, which will “give life to thee”. Such an eternity represents the idea of Elizabethan poets and they were giving shape to this eternity into the form of love. Besides, “Accept this garland, plant it on thy head”, is a pastoral description, which shows another quintessential characteristic of Elizabethan poetry. The poem adopts this line because of its pastoral touch, and also the pronoun congruity in the use of “thy”, depicting a straightforward way of professing love to Cuddie. Love and the integration of love with pastoral and religious elements make the poem Elizabethan.

“To My Love: Cuddie”  is Elizabethan with its conveying intense sentiments from the poet. Based on themes such as love that are emotional, Elizabethan poets develop their direct and intense expressions of feelings. This could be shown from lines such as “Take all my love, my love, yea, take them all” (13) and “I never writ, nor no man ever loved” (20). In the previous line, the repetition of “my love” and the suggestion of “take them all” suggest intense feelings from the bottom of the heart of the poet. Not only love is professed here, the lines are used because of the totality and the degree of the intensive love shown here. Proclaiming that “Take all my love, my love, yea, take them all” (13) and “I never writ, nor no man ever loved” (20), the poet is arguing for a totality of love that seem overwhelming to himself, thus showing the degree of the feelings. “For nothing this wide universe I call” also indicates the sheer emotional intensity of the affections that love has on himself.

The patchwork poem “To My Love: Cuddie” is also Elizabethan because of its rhyme scheme. According to Christina Lee, the rhyme scheme of an Elizabethan sonnet is “ABAB CDCD EFEF GG” (1). The patchwork poem resembles this scheme to some degree by rhyming the words ending the other line in it. In each stanza, the ending couplet is quintessential and follows the part of the “GG” rhyme in Elizabethan sonnet, as shown in lines such as “So that I wink or else hold down my head/Because your blazing eyes my bale have bred”. (George Gascoigne) and also “If this be error and upon me proved/I never writ, nor no man ever loved” (William Shakespeare). The aim of adopting such a rhyme scheme is to give form to the poem, and to express intense emotions with a fixed form.

This essay looks at how “To My Love: Cuddie”  falls under the category of Elizabethan poetry because of its focus on love, its showing of intense sensibilities, as well as the rhyme scheme. Not only it is one because it is made of lines from Elizabethan poems, but also because of its structural, emotional and thematic adoptions. The poems from this period of time show great significance because of their embodying intensive feelings within an orderly form.

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[athenswrites]

15 Questions

Thank you @keysandopenmind for tagging me in this! I'll tag @halleyuhm @delusionisaplace @spademuses @pga-books @nemaliwrites and whoever else wants to play (no pressure!)

I'm gonna take a little shift and do this for Councilors Shanna Miles and Marlowe Sidney from Not Your Typical Fairytale

Rules: Answer the questions as yourself or one of your OCs!

Are you named after anyone?

Sidney: Marlowe and Greyson don't come from anywhere but Silas is my father's name. There's a family tradition of using your parent's name as your middle name, and it goes back several generations. Miles: No.

When was the last time you cried?

Sidney: When I get stressed I cry as soon as I'm in private. Also known as yesterday evening. Miles: Stress-crying is pretty common for me. I had a bit of a breakdown the other day after I got done putting up with Councilors Mason and Johnson.

Do you have kids?

Miles: I had two daughters. They should be 8 and 10, but I haven't seen them in six years. Sidney: Not yet, but me and my partner both would like to have kids once...we get this all figured out.

Do you use sarcasm?

Miles: Never. Sidney: I find it pretty hard to understand, so I like to think I don't use it often.

What's the first thing you notice about others?

Sidney: How they react to me. Do they flinch back? Do they approach with confidence? How do they see me as a person? Miles: How well kept they are. Piers usually comes to meetings looking like they rolled out of bed and threw the first business attire on they could find. Johnson always looks put together with a crisp suit.

What's your eye color?

Miles: Light brown. Sidney: Grey!

Scary stories or happy endings?

Sidney: Happy endings. Miles: ...Happy endings.

Any special talents?

Sidney: I'm pretty good with sciences and I work off and on a genetics project. Miles: I don't know? Maybe legal writing? I'm pretty good at writing up legislation and the like.

Where were you born?

Sidney: Athens Zone of Safety, Georgia! Miles: Savannah

What are your hobbies?

Miles: I don't really have a lot of free time. I spend most of my time working on my duty-related work. If anything, it's crocheting. Keeping my hands busy. Sidney: If I'm not working, I'm down in the Laboratory with Dr. Panya. That's my hobby.

Do you have any pets?

Miles: My wife had a cat. Sidney: We have a family dog back home, but he's not with me in ATLZoS

What sports do you play/have played?

Sidney: I don't do sports. Miles: I used to play football and baseball as a kid with my little brothers, but nothing seriously

How tall are you?

Sidney: Six foot, ten inches Miles: 5'7"

Favorite subject in school?

Sidney: Of course, it was science. Specifically chemistry, although I do a lot more bio-related stuff. Miles: History.

Dream job?

Miles: I used to be the Mayor of Savannah, and I'd love to return to that role, but I've served my term limit. Sidney: If anything, I'd like to work and live in the Lab with Dr. Panya full time. The government stuff really isn't my jam.

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[farawayeyes4]

The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined: An Analysis of Cryptographic Systems Used as Evidence That Some Author Other Than William Shakespeare Wrote the Plays Commonly Attributed to Him by William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman.

This book examines in exquisite and rational detail why and how every cipher (most often attributed to Francis Bacon) applied to the Works of William Shakespeare is invalid and null. The Friedmans were top cryptoanalysts in their day. Elizebeth Friedman is famous for being the codebreaker that decrypted Al Capone’s messages and less famous for being the cryptanalyst that broke the Nazi spyring in South America during World War II. Her husband, William Friedman worked for the government as a cryptanalyst and worked on Nazi spyrings in Europe. This book, written after the War, examines the cryptography often ascribed through the centuries to disprove Shakespeare’s authorship. They meticulously explain, provide historical reference, test, and debunk each method deployed by what they call Baconians who favor Francis Bacon as author of the Works. They delve into printing practices of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, also proving the ciphers used to be false. It is highly readable and understandable. The oddest elements of theories they debunk have more to do with who Baconians believe Francis Bacon to be and less to do with their belief in authorship of the plays, although that is intertwined into it. The Friedmans detail and address the ciphers also commonly believed to be hidden within the Works by Baconians that detail the parentage of Bacon. They believe, with no evidence whatsoever, that Francis Bacon was the product of a love affair between Queen Elizabeth I and her favorite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Not only is he royal, there’s evidence that he’s also the half brother of Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex and that the Earl conspired with the Queen to kill Dudley, their father while he was his own mother’s lover. That Baconians believe these notions makes the entire cipher element all the more implausible in its presentation. For the question of authorship and the examination in my book chapter, none of this is really relevant to the question save to be a counter to a documentary that relies on the very ciphers debunked heavily by the Friedmans nearly 60 years before the documentary was produced. In the end, it should not matter who wrote the Works of Shakespeare. After all, they still exist no matter what name is slapped on it. Rather, it matters most to those who have divided themselves into the camps of Baconians or Stratfordians. Personally, I find the cipher to be beyond ridiculous not because I believe that strongly in Shakespeare’s authorship, rather it’s because it is so beyond over complicated. Is it not simple enough that Shakespeare is Shakespeare and wasting precious time pouring over text to dig up some wild cipher to prove otherwise is just silly? And why Francis Bacon (who Baconians also believe wrote all of Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sidney, and a handful of other notable Elizabethan authors on top of his own works)? It just seems tedious when one thinks it through, and it is clear by the end of the book that the Friedmands have found the exercise just so.

#Shakespeare Ciphers Baconians Francis Bacon Elizabethan Authorship Deathe Author Debunking

[ohnotoomanyfandoms]

Hey! Fellow ADOW fan here. I saw your post about season 2, and I was wondering what your opinion of the characters that are introduced in season 2 (particularly Philippe, Gallowglass, and Father Hubbard) is in terms of casting, adaptation from the book, etc?

Hi, thank you for the question! So many characters to discuss, let’s see... 

I absolutely adored the casting for Mary Sidney, and I think her character and vibe were perfect. Same for the Queen, it’s nice to see an older Elizabeth not being played by a conventionally beautiful 30-year-old for a change. She was perfect, as you guys could glimpse from the trailers. 

I do have to say that (privately) I wasn’t sure about the casting of Paul Rhys for Andrew Hubbard, mostly because of his age and demeanor in the books, but I was wrong because he is UNRECOGNIZABLE in the show and plays his part very well. 

I had similar feelings for Philippe, I thought someone else could have been a better fit, but James Purefoy has done a spectacular job becoming Philippe and I have nothing but praise for him. He definitely captured the larger-than-life charisma of Philippe. You’ll see. 

Goody Alsop is perfect. There is a little surprise with Susanna Norman - which isn’t a secret because author Deb Harkness herself has tweeted it a few times - she is played by the amazing Aisling Loftus, who is also reprising her role as Sophie. Yes, she’s playing two characters this season and it’s absolutely genius, because this way you can truly see the family resemblance. 

I think the choice for Louisa de Clermont is very fitting, as were Walter Raleigh, Henry Percy, and William Cecil. 

For Phoebe, I wanted to have no expectations and let Adelle surprise me, and she certainly did. I loved what she did with the character, especially because we see so little of her in Shadow of Night and even The Book of Life. She kind of keeps a marginal role until we truly get to know her in Time’s Convert, and I was so happy to see more of her in the show. Phoebe fans will adore episode 4. 

Pierre and Françoise were great. So were Rudolph II and Edward Kelley. 

And now, to my all-time favorites, Gallowglass and Kit. Absolute scene-stealers. A+++++++++ for casting and for acting. Tom Hughes does an incredible job in showing Kit’s duplicitous nature, his feelings for Matthew, and glimpses of his daemon madness. 

Steven Cree is brilliant as Gallowglass. He is Gallowglass, exactly how I’d pictured him in the books. From his very first scene, you can tell his chemistry with Matthew is so genuine and really shows Gallowglass’s loyalty and love for his uncle. 

Wow, I do hope I’m not forgetting anyone. If I am, know that it wasn’t intentional so don’t read anything into it. You’re welcome to send in more questions if you want, and I’ll answer what I can. 

My (non-spoilery) review of season 2 is almost finished, I’ll publish that soon, so stay tuned! 

I’m also dabbling with the idea of publishing another article after everyone has had the chance to watch the new season where I go all in and unpack everything. Definitely write me any questions/requests as you’re watching and I’ll be sure to analyze those scenes in the spoilery review!

#a discovery of witches #adow #a discovery of witches season 2 #adow2 #Phoebe taylor #Gallowglass de clermont #kit marlowe #Mary sidney #Sophie norman #shadow of night #Deborah harkness #all souls series #all souls trilogy #father hubbard #Andrew hubbard #Philippe de clermont

[acaciapines]

ive come to the conclusion that the song sin triangle by sidney gish is simply about scary marlowe

#dungeons and daddies #dndads #like its a song that perfect captures the teen girl idk who tf i am experience real well #AND it has that long spoken part in the middle that starts like #‘what do we mean when we talk about personality’ #and ends like ‘have you ever felt alone or out of place #when you wanted very much to be oart of the group #what did you do?’ #and in the scary animatic this would be the entire inposter part #where the boys keep not being able to figure out who is real scary #and ends w her and terry jr and him vanishing and her like well FUCK #sorry i dont dndad blog that often but i am thinking about it so much #thise s2 teens....i literally love these teens thank you dndads

[gottagobackintime]

“You know, in Morocco... it's not uncommon for male friends to hold hands in public. Nobody looks, nobody points or... locks you up. You can just walk, hand-in-hand... in the street. But here... Some people aren't allowed to live the lives they want. Some can't.”

#grantchester #leonard finch #daniel marlowe #al weaver #oliver dimsdale #gottagobackintime gifs #everything is fine #not at all sad #grantchester spoilers #I want leonard to break down in front of mrs c #and tell her about his suicide attempt #and her being like well it's because you like men in an unnatural way or something like that #and he gets angry you know the way he can get angry sometimes #really cold #and he says no it's not because of who he is but because of how everyone else is #how she is #maybe bring up sidney #and how he said that he's a good person and that he didn't care #or how will doesn't care #or hell not even geordie cares and he's a copper #I want to tell her how much he's hurting because he keeps daniel away from him most of the time #and he knows it's hurting him #but he doesn't want to lose her #and so he choose to more or less cut daniel out of his life #at least when they are in grantchester #but maybe he's not so sure anymore that he did the right call #maybe daniel is right #maybe he should give up the church and go be a teacher or something #so that they can have a life together #leonard/daniel

[ladyannelister]

So excited for this new season of Grantchester! From what I can tell from the first two episodes so far, Leonard and Daniel appear to be going on happily despite having to sneak around the vicarage and avoiding Mrs. C’s gaze. Though, I haven’t been able to watch the first episodes in full — just from what I can see in other people’s posts.

I was watching earlier episodes featuring interactions between Geordie and Leonard/Daniel, and am struck by how much Geordie has grown as a character in accepting them over the last season or two. He does, though, seem to still look down at other gay men and states how he has to uphold the law against male homosexuality (as is the case in 4x03).

One storyline idea I would love to see for Leonard and Daniel in connection to Geordie’s character: a situation where Geordie’s loyalty to them is tested with either Leonard or Daniel (or both) getting arrested by one of Geordie’s subordinates at the police station. I could see Leonard being let off due to being a vicar, but Daniel would be kept locked up. What would Geordie do? How would Geordie come to choose between his friends and his duty to carry out the law? Not to mention, what would the other police staff think of Geordie trying to protect Leonard and/or Daniel from that charge?

Anyways, it would be a fascinating plot device. Looking forward to whatever season 5 holds for Leonard and Daniel, nevertheless!

#grantchester #leonard x daniel #leonard finch #daniel marlowe #geordie keating #my thoughts #murder mysteries #i love this show #as much as i miss sidney i do like will davenport

[byneddiedingo]

Walter Huston in Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1936) Cast: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor, Paul Lukas, David Niven, Gregory Gaye, Maria Ouspenskaya, Spring Byington, Harlan Briggs, Odette Myrtil, Kathryn Marlowe, John Payne. Screenplay: Sidney Howard, based on his play adapted from a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Cinematography: Rudolph Maté. Art direction: Richard Day. Music: Alfred Newman.  I have a feeling that Dodsworth is not quite as well known as it ought to be. It's one of the few Hollywood dramas of the 1930s that seem to have been made for grownups, avoiding melodrama and sentimentality in its treatment of marriage and growing old, and sidestepping the Production Code's infantilizing attitudes toward adultery and divorce. And most of all, it has a wonderful performance by Walter Huston, who was nominated for an Oscar but lost, rather shamefully, to Paul Muni's hammy turn in The Story of Louis Pasteur (William Dieterle, 1936). Huston's Sam Dodsworth is a captain of industry, founder of an automobile company, who decides to sell the business and spend the rest of his life figuring out what to do with himself. His wife, Fran (Ruth Chatterton), knows exactly what she wants to do: Sail to Europe and flirt with all those interesting men who can't be found in the Midwestern city of Zenith -- which was also the setting for Sinclair Lewis's novel Babbitt, whose title character became a byword for Midwestern fatuousness. Fran is a few years younger than Sam -- Chatterton was 44, Huston 53 -- and unwilling to grow old gracefully, claiming to be 35 and unwilling to reveal that she has just become a grandmother. Opportunity presents itself immediately on shipboard in the form of a British military officer (David Niven), but after flirting shamelessly with him, Fran takes fright when they reach England and he wants to take their relationship another step. But when the Dodsworths move on to Paris, Fran becomes bolder and after Sam, bored with life in Europe, returns alone to the United States for a visit with their daughter and her husband, she begins an affair with a suave European (Paul Lukas). Getting wind of the affair, Sam returns to Paris and confronts Fran, who breaks it off. But their efforts to patch things up fail and Fran asks him for a divorce. In Vienna she finds another suitor, a younger, rather effete aristocrat named Kurt Von Obersdorf (Gregory Gaye), and is ready to marry him once the divorce goes through. Meanwhile, Sam travels on his own and in Naples is reunited with Edith Cortright (Mary Astor), a divorcee he had met earlier. Sam moves in with Edith in the villa she is renting, but their happiness is interrupted by Fran's misery: Kurt's mother, the baroness (Maria Ouspenskaya), forbids their marriage on the grounds that Fran is not only divorced but also too old to provide an heir for the family line. A distraught Fran, facing up to failure, urges Sam to return to America with her, presenting him with the dilemma of continuing a marriage that has proved hopeless or exploring the new vistas that have opened for him. Lewis's novel is more in the satirical vein of Babbitt than Sidney Howard's screenplay, based on his Broadway play, which also starred Huston. It evokes Henry James's stories about American encounters with Europeans. William Wyler, with his smooth, unobtrusive professionalism, is the perfect director for the film, which was made under the aegis of producer Samuel Goldwyn, who aimed for polish and prestige and for once achieved it. Lewis's novel was published in 1929, but by the time Dodsworth was filmed, Nazism was on the rise in Germany and fascism had taken hold in Italy, so Sam and Edith's dream of traveling the world together feels more than a little naive in the context of the period. The only reference to the rumblings of war perceptible in the film comes in Sam's comment that he prefers the United States because there are "no soldiers along the Canadian border."

#Dodsworth #William Wyler #Walter Huston

[jameshathaways]

Favorite shots from the Grantchester S4 promo

#grantchesteredit #grantchester #sidney chambers #geordie keating #cathy keating #leonard finch #daniel marlowe #YES i'm still on 1x04 NO don't @ me about it #no gifs of the new guy bc he was in all bright bits that didn't go with these rip #mine #mine: grantchester #grantchester: various