#p d james

[jaybeefoxy]

Watched the Martin Shaw version of Dalgliesh the other night for the first time. UK TV Play has The Murder Room and Death in Holy Orders on demand. I have to say, I liked Martin's rendition of the character, but he's not as quietly contemplative as Bertie Carvel. He's studied, thoughtful, and shows the character's dedication to the pursuit of truth, but he's not as intimidating as Carvel manages to make his version. Somehow, the new version is much more like the original. I've stuck the rest of this review under the cut. I'd be interested in other folk's thoughts.

They messed with the Martin Shaw stories, but I can forgive it for the purposes of dramatising. I've not read the Murder Room yet so I can't compare it, but I've just finished Death in Holy Orders and was interested to see how it played out. They slightly changed the ending, probably to make it more dramatic, but I'm not sure they really needed to. They don't really seem to bring out the fact that Dalgliesh is a poet in Shaw's version. It seems to be used far more in the recent series.

I'm hoping they do Holy Orders for the new series because if they're sticking to canon, this is where P D James introduces Emma Lavenham. Not that I want to see Dalgliesh with a new love interest (because I definitely ship him with Carlys Peer's Miskin), but I'm interested from a literary pov to see what they do with it.

I was slightly confused, because they stuck Emma in Murder Room for Martin's series, which she isn't in Bertie's rendition. However, they filmed out of book sequence for the new one. Far as I can see Murder Room comes after Holy Orders, so the new series has ignored canon there.

However, I liked neither of the actresses who took Miskin's role in the Martin Shaw series. Tilly Blackwood played a version closer to the books in terms of looks, but I didn't feel sympathetic to her character's attitude. Victoria Scarborough took the role in Holy Orders, (so from a blond actress, they jump to one with short dark hair) and I found her too sharp-edged, despite perhaps being closer to the changes wrought in her by James' writing as the character grows.

I like Carlys Peer's rendition, despite it being the least like the books (not least of which because they didn't cast a white actress), but she brings out Miskin's relationship with Dalgliesh better, in my humble opinion.

Nor did I care for the rendition of Piers Tarrant either. In the Carvel version they've mashed up the (book) characters of Daniel Aaron and Piers Tarrant, so we seem to get Daniel Tarrant, played by Alastair Brammer. I feel he's a much better fit than William Beck who seems to be whinging all the time.

Personally, for series three, I would like to see them do Death in Holy Orders, The Lighthouse and The Private Patient. I think this would allow them to introduce Emma (even though I'd prefer an outcome with Kate Miskin, that's for fanfic realms, not television), and follow their relationship. Private Patient is the last one in the series, so it would allow them to tie this up to three series, unless a fourth is planned, in which case, they'll have to mess around with the timeline, which I hope they don’t do. The main problem I can see is that the last series was firmly rooted in the 70s and the last book brings us up to 2008. It's a big leap, and one I'm not sure will work. Roll on 2024.

#adam dalgliesh #martin shaw #bertie carvel #murder room #death in holy orders #p d james

[linusjf]

P D James: Not by the self-regarding

“The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.” —-P.D. James.

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#P D James

[theimpalatales]

"It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style."

P D James

#p d james #writing motivation #writing advice #writing #writerblr #authors #writers on tumblr #monday #monday motivation #bookblr #reading #booklover #readers #tbe

[kepage3]

TBRYear 10 - 1. The Children of Men by P. D. James

Genre: Dystopia Narrative style: Chronological, shifts between first and third person. Rating: 2/5 Published: 1992 Format: Kindle Synopsis: Babies are no longer being born anywhere around the world. This has been so for over 20 years. Theo Faron is merely getting through his days with no hope for the future – either his own or that of civilisation. Then he meets Julian who is part of an…

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#dystopia #P D James #TBR Challenge 2023 #the children of men

[lectorapromedio]

-[...]Si yo siguiera mis corazonadas, dejaría mi trabajo sin hacer; no es lo que uno sospecha, sino lo que uno puede probar lo que cuenta.

-Poco Digno Para Una Mujer [An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, 1972], de P. D. James

#p d james #cordelia gray #literatura policial #corazonada #intuición

[filmografie]

Dean Stockwell in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), dir. Sidney Lumet

#you know when people talk about an actor's “most beautiful” film — the one in which they were at their peak loveliness #always lovely — but this was dean's #so reminiscent of james dean for me in this #dean stockwell #long day's journey into night #sidney lumet #1962 #m* #f: ldjin #p: dean stockwell #d: sidney lumet #m: gif #w23*

[fridayyy-13th]

so for AroSpec Awareness Week i decided to do an entire page of doodles dedicated to the (aromantic) love of my (aromantic) life, Sasha James <3

...buuuuuut then i didn't finish it until tonight, the Sunday after ASAW ended 😅 but here she is!! the best character in TMA!

and as always, full page under the cut & IDs in alt!

#friday doodles #the magnus archives #sasha james #not!sasha #yes i think sasha's a doctor who fan. i think she grew up watching the fourth doctor's run on VHS #(meanwhile martin watched the reboot as an older teen) #and i also think sasha wears a lot of silly earrings. that headcanon is courtesy of raf radical-dadical-rafael's art :D #not suuuuper happy with the quality of the photos but it's one in the morning i'm not retaking them now :P #also ro if you see this - this is the page of doodles i mentioned wanting to post! so i did finally get around to it :)

[kindheartedgummybears]

guess who got bored and decided to color-swatch most of the lh characters

now obviously take all of this with a grain of salt since we all know color-picking from screenshots and models isn't the best way to get their skin tone due to color theory and color-picking being pixel but pixel but its the general kind of skin tone they have so <3

all images sourced from HariboStixx on DeviantArt.

#Little Hope #Andrew Little Hope #Anthony Clarke #Abraham Alastor #Angela Little Hope #Anne Clarke #Amy Lambert #Leonard Carson #Simon Carver #Daniel Little Hope #Dennis Clarke #David Milton #Isaac Worel #John Little Hope #James Clarke #Joseph Lambert #Taylor Little Hope #Tanya Clarke #Tabitha Milton #Thomas Wyman #holy wow thats alot of characters #Some of them aren't here like Vince and the M's cuz there was no T models of all of them :') #JESUS ABRAHAM TABITHA AND CARSON ARE SO WHITE COMPARED TO THE OTHERS😭😭😭😭 #LIKE YALL P L EA S E IM BEGGING YALL TO GO OUTSIDE FOR ONCE AND YOUR LIVES😭😭😭😭 #could i have done this better? 100% but this was just a fun lil pass time for me so #Yall can use it if you want or not like i said take all of it with a grain of salt #the most consistent tones seems to be the A girls the D's Isaac and Wyman #but that could of just been the pixel i picked from them💀🙏 #im at Walmart rn so sure might as well post it

[pi-mawrth]

#dan and phil #dan and phil games #youtube #d&p games #top gear #topgear #dan howell #phil lester #two buttons meme #richard hammond #james may #jeremy clarkson #im so tired

[jaybeefoxy]

Warning: Bertie Carvel/Adam Dagliesh appreciation post. Though this fandom be but little it is fierce...

Having already had far too much BS from the general public at work, I think I am now aiming to channel Adam Dalgliesh and his perfect expressions. I mean, if my boss looked like this, I'd be distracted okay with this expression although wary...

He looks like you've interrupted him at an important moment. Choose your words carefully. Better be important.

However, this one I wouldn't want to trigger. He's beginning to look disappointed in you. Not so good. Could go either way, depends on what you say next...

This one though is definitely not one I would want to be on the receiving end of though. He's pissed. You fu<ked up, didn't you?

Oh, you pissed him off properly. That is not a good look to be on the end of. Better have your resignation letter ready on his desk as soon as.

Smiles from this man are rare. He does smile, occasionally, but it rarely reaches the eyes. He's in interview mode here, and this is for politeness' sake.

There's the thoughtful smile...

I'd want this expression over disappointment any day.

This one perhaps is better, but this one...

I would definitely want to be on the receiving end of this one. Lights up his face. I guess the rarer the smile, the more precious to receive one.

I adore Bertie Carvel's rendition of the character. He's responsible for getting me into reading P D James' books, which I find are really good. I will never know how I didn't manage to watch Martin Shaw in the role, considering I had a crush on that man when he was in The Professionals. I never liked Roy Marsden as Dalgliesh, and even P D James is recorded as saying she thought he wasn't the right choice for the character. I think she would have loved Bertie's rendition though; private, thoughtful, stoic, and introspective, a brave-faced grieving widower with the sensitivity to deliver the poetic side which at first seems not to fit in to his policing, but as the series progresses, you see how it comes through in well-chosen words and timing.

Roll on Series 3. I have realised I'm a dedicated Carvelier now.

#adam dalgliesh #dalgliesh series 1 #dalgliesh series 2 #P D James #AD's expressions #carveliers

[klirk-hammurton]

James, that's such slutty behavior 👀 I live for it

#metallica #metallica family #met family #tallica #acillatem #5th member #load/reload era #james hetfield #papa het #d a d d y het #the mighty het #the master of puppets #sir.....i know of several ways you can use that tongue of yours 👀 #like sir.....p l e a s e #sir you can spit in my mouth and i would say thank you #you can step on me and i would thank you #geezus fuck

[gardensprout]

'...In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.' For a moment, I forgot which line of mine followed. We stared at each other, and the crowd faded around us into indistinct shadow and set dressing. With a jolt I remembered my words, but not quite the right ones. 'Be ruled by me,' I said, a few lines too soon. 'Forget to think of her.'

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (ACT III, Scene 18)

#srsly how did he only notice he was gay in ACT III? #james is w h i p p e d #literally my favorite moment #oliver is a dumbass #jamesoliver #oliver marks #james farrow #if we were villains #m.l. rio #iwwv #iwwv quotes

[emiliasilverova]

Silverova's very own list of 00 agents

No idea if anybody will be interested to be fair, but well, I made this on a whim 🙃

Some notes:

This is Craig!Bond verse, set in 2014 shoo, shoo, Spectre

13 00s, because I don't think there has been any number above 0013 in the extended universe (that being said I'm not using any characters from said extended universe, because I just don't know them well enough). Also it puts Bond right at the middle 👀

001 is a weird case because he's both an OC and not an OC. He's technically the main character of the video game GoldenEye Rogue Agent, but since he's one of those silent protagonists everything but his name and appearance is completely made up by me

If @themuller13 is hanging around here, hope you're not mad that I couldn't find a better name than "Martisha" for Nomi

004 chose his name specifically to confuse people over the pronunciation (spoiler: it's Ka-zhee-myesh)... and also because I couldn't help making a Metal Gear Solid reference (Kaz, hmmm?)

"Panj" happens to mean "five" in Punjabi (thanks for the intel @00qsillyfanturtle)

James bloody Bond, a Catholic? 😱 Yessir (or ma'am, or any term that applies)

009 is named Eric after Eric Bryce (009 in the Spectre script)

My faceclaims for 008 and 0010 are respectively Regé-Jean Page and Joanna Dark (from the N64 game Perfect Dark)

0011 is Silver (my 16 year old OC) in 00 form. You might have encountered her in some fics of mine already

0013 is by far the least murderous one of them (followed by 005)

Religious background is just, well, a background--doesn't mean they're practising, or even believers

Languages in italics mean that said languages are more or less understood, though not enough to hold a conversation

You can ask lore questions on any of them, if you want. I'll be certainly happy to answer!

PS: damn, it's my 100th post 😮

(Also, cut in two parts to be a bit more readable on mobile)

#james bond #007 #craig!bond #headcanon #00 agents #nomi #alec trevelyan #original 00s #q like #oh god thirteen of them #language nerdism #autism goes brrrrrr #i mean look at this #a goddamn s p r e a d s h e e t #perhaps one day i'll actually use this in fic #in any case #if you're still here you're entitled to a cookie 🍪

[veryslowreader]

A Mind to Murder by P. D. James

Close My Eyes

#A Mind to Murder #adam dalgliesh #P. D. James #close my eyes #clive owen

[a-l-kaplan-author]

Daring to Write: A ConTinual Panel

Being a writer isn’t just about getting words to paper. It’s taking ideas and making them coherent. It’s taking dreams and sharing them with an audience. What’s it really like to bring your work into the world? Find out how Linda D. Addison, D.S. Dehel, Alledria Hurt, Selah Janel, A. L. Kaplan, Gini Koch, L. Marie Wood, and host James P. Nettles as they talk about writing, process, marketing,…

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#Author #ConTinual #ThePanelRoom #WritersLife #Writing #WritingProcess #WritingTips #A. L. Kaplan #Alledria Hurt #D.S. Dehel #Gini Koch #James P. Nettles #L. Marie Wood #Linda D. Addison #Selah Janel

[biboocat]

I was happy to find two interesting copies of favorite books at the used bookshop today: The The Mill on the Floss and The Return of the Native. I also found two others on my wish list to read for the first time: Bleak House and Cover Her Face (Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh mystery #1). The Mill on the Floss is illustrated with paintings by Wray Manning for the Limited Editions club. It is my favorite novel by any author to date, and I am looking forward to reading it in this edition.

#books #bibliophile #george eliot #thomas hardy #pd James #charles dickens #p. d. james