#roark my beloved

[oldeubagel]

roark my beloved

#art #my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital artist #fanart #procreate #pokemon #pkmn #pokemon diamond and pearl #gym leader roark #he deserves more love #roark my beloved

[arcanesprite]

Im holding him tenderly and you may look

#roark my beloved #pokemon roark #expect more

[destinywillowleaf]

she likes to feel tall

(not pictured: roark staring up from the deck trying to figure out how she got up there so quickly)

#pokemon #archeops #gym leader roark #roark pokemon #(by association. it's his archeops. puppy my beloved) #puppy the archeops #tbh it's also really funny looking at the difference in sketches/work for two of the other pirate costumes i've got in the works #one of them was super easy and is just getting accessories for fun. the other took a while to find something and is going through revisions #in order to fit the vibes properly and match the pokemon and look less like the reference. also i have no idea how her hair works

[salon-maiden-anabel]

Family tree is a nightmare. They're cousins.

#junes doodles #talk tag #it's bc their grandparents are gay gay homosexual gay . i need to post some ancestor designs ive made eventually #i think ive only posted the ancestor of the train twins on my art acc . terminus beloved #(gestures) i've got designs for the ancestors of ingo emmet uhhhh elesa. Grimsley . Roxie . (gestures) two ancestors of roark #also a descendant of adaman I need to post about very badly #AND LUCY'S ANCESTOR. shes so <3 #Lucy's ancestor and Roxie's ancestor are pirates lol #family tree rambles

[immamapletreekid]

imagine if they brought n back to anipoke *cries*

#already so very grateful for newest anipoke for bringing cynthia lance and steven back TOGETHER #BUT IMAGINE IF THEY BROUGHT N HARMONIA BACK?!! I WOULD FAINT ON THE SPOT #thats the iron deficiency anemia speaking not me-- #BUT IMAGINE! WHAT WE COULD HAVE!! #THEY SHOULD TOTALLY BRING N BACK. AND ALSO THE SINNOH ELITE FOUR #we got a tiny little flint appearance which! i am very grateful for #BUT LUCIAN?!! THE LAST TIME WE SAW HIM WAS LIKE. THAT ONE EPISODE IN DIAMOND AND PEARL ANIPOKE ;O; #hyouta too....roark the beloved. the way i cried real tears when i entered oreburgh for the first time in bdsp ;w; #OMG OMG OMG UNOVA ELITE FOUR!!! #GRIMSLEY. GRIM. GIIMA. GRI-- #SHAUNTAL?!! I LOVE HER TOO PLS #sad we only got caitlin in best wishes... i love her so that was nice at least #BUT GRIMSLEY?!!!!! ID #im very passionate about any ghost psychic or dark type specialist. is that evident #lets see... lucian grimsley shauntal caitlin will sabrina bede marnie piers... yea h #but but but!!! there are exceptions! LIKE DAIGO WHOS A STEEL TYPE SPECIALIST #i love metagross bc steel and psychic type aka daigos favourite type and my favourite type <3 imsorry #ALSO ALSO WALLACE IS WATER TYPE SPECIALIST #LANCE IS A DRAGON TYPE SPECIALIST #LENORA IS NORMAL TYPE SPECIALIST #ELESA IS ELECTRIC TYPE. ROXIE IS POISON SPECIALIST #THE TRIPLETS ARE FIRE WATER GRASS #yea. yea yeah i have lots of faves #OHOHOH OHOH SUBMAS #im biased bc ingo has a chandelure aka my most favourite pokemon ever #and emmet has elektross one of my favourite gen v pokemon #ok rambling has gotten long again but pokemon is my passion #rambling about stuff #rambling about pokemon

[dragonsongmakhali]

10 fandoms, 10 characters, 10 tags:

Basic rules: choose 10 fandoms that you are part of/support, and choose a favorite character from each of those. Then, tag ten folks!

Tagged by: @jigschosai @sealrock @reikatsukihana and @sasslett! Thank y'all :'D

This is not ordered by how much I'm into them, they're just in whatever order came to mind :) I will caution that I don't tend to choose favorite characters, I'm more of an OC maker. Feeling chatty, so I'm putting the actual list under a cut. You're welcome.

1. FFXIV : Pretty self-explanatory for the xiv sideblog. Since I'm not as in to the MSQ, I don't think I actually have a favorite character (which I know is illegal, I'm sorry :<). I really love seeing what the community does with the characters, though!

2. Halo : The storyline went to hell long ago, but I do still adore the original trilogy and constantly mine it for gpose captions. It was basically what I lived off of in high school. If I had a tumblr back then, I'd have been insufferable. Favorite character is easily Rtas 'Vadum.

3. WoW : Kind of. Asterisk. I really only know Classic, and even then, I'm way more Horde than I am Alliance. I have approximate knowledge of many things. No favorite there either - I'm all about the world and making OCs. We have two concurrent WoW tabletop games running at the moment, so this is where most of my headspace is. Their shared timeline is different from the canon, so I'm not really in the fandom per se.

4. Mass Effect : Alien dating sim, my beloved. I even enjoyed Andromeda (jump jets implemented perfectly, fun combat, the Jardaan reminded me of Forerunners). If you ask me to choose a favorite, I'll cry. How is a mother supposed to choose between her two sons (Legion and Grunt)? Drack also gets an honorary mention for his 100s of low res pictures of guns email.

5. Elder Scrolls : Mostly Skyrim, some Oblivion. I know, I'm one of those fans. Anyway, I've probably played over 1k hours of Skyrim by this point and yet. And yet! I don't have a favorite. The entirety of the Companions? I just wish that the faction questlines in Skyrim weren't "you killed 3 wolves and have been here a week. You lead us all now", but it does give me good scaffolding which. As an OC fiend. Grabby hands.

6. The World Ends With You : This game made me good at calculus in high school. My favorite character from here is Sho Minamimoto, and I was a completely normal teenager who dealt with that by doing calculus problems for fun. Turns out, the trick to get good at math is repetition.

7. Pokémon : Probably my earliest fandom. Still play the games now and again, just got Legends Arceus (super late, I know), and that's been a lot of fun. My favorite character from the franchise is Sinnoh's Rock type leader, Roark. I had a long-running sideblog dedicated to the Sinnoh region because gen IV is my favorite in general! It's inactive at the moment.

8. Guild Wars : 2, to be more precise. I started playing about a month after release, and since it's f2p, I still drop in from time to time. Like every MMO, I have no favorites. I really love playing Sylvari, though! (The glow!! The nightmare!! The [[Heart of Thorns spoiler!!]] They're just so neat)

9. Star Trek : we're now getting into "shows I watched and didn't hate" because I'm definitely not in the 'fandom' for Trek. We've been going through the old series as a way to wind down before bed, starting with TNG. We're on Enterprise now, and I'm sad that it got canceled. Still will probably have a better ending than Voyager. I don't have a favorite, but I can tell you that the writers' collective favorite must be either Seven of Nine or Data.

10. Uh. Various anime? I can't say I've recently loved any particular series to the point of fandom, but as a whole, I've been a weeb since I was in middle school. "Recent" series that I've enjoyed have included Mob Psycho and Love is War. Coincidentally, they both saved the most banger opening for their third season.

We had to stretch a little bit, but we made it to ten! Proud of this community (this community is my brain desperately trying to remember 10 things I like)

Have no idea who's been tagged in this, so if you've done this, please ignore! Or reblog it again!

@miqojak @airis-ray @wilanserulia @ahollowgrave @blackestnight @starstrider @iron-sparrow @sumifinalfourteen @jump-n-dive @otherworldseekers

#it was so hard to come up with more than 8 imma be real #i tend to hyperfocus for years on things so I'm more depth than breadth #sorry makhali all of my brainworms are for the tabletop :( #tagged

[giggly-squiggily]

Ahhh squiggly! I just got a chance to read my request you fulfilled and I loved it so so much!!! And I’m extremely honored you enjoy my messages, I’m glad they make your day better! If Pokémon requests are still open, may I please request another one with Roark? I headcannon he gives really good bear hugs! 10/10 bodies the person (and tooootally dosent spin his s/o) and if it’s not a big deal, can you also do another x reader? But, if your Pokémon requests are full, no worries friend! Just ignore this request and have a lovely day! Thank you so so much!! -⚡️

Aww!!! That makes my heart happy! Thank you friend :) And gah, my heart is BLOOMING! Roark beloved- I always love writing for him! This is beyond precious! I've gotcha covered, friend! Have an amazing day aswell!

There was a lot of things you loved about Roark.

For one- he was an absolute dork about fossils and rocks. He could ramble for hours about the history of various prehistoric pokemon and their habits, forms, and the mythology associated with them. His excitement for said things was incredibly endearing, and he had a way to him that made even what seemed like the most boring aspects entertaining.

He was also incredibly supportive of you in all your plans and decisions. As long as you were doing it for you and weren’t putting yourself in harm's way, he was your number one cheerleader, encouraging you to take risks and being there for you if you stumbled. 

Both in the metaphorical and literal sense. He’s a strong guy- there had been more than one occasion where he carried you home after you hurt or exhausted yourself.

All these are great, but by far your favorite part of Roark came in his hugs. There were two types when it came to the fossil loving redhead: the first was softer- a gentle squeeze when the day’s been long and you needed physical affection. They could last forever if you desired it.

The second was even better.

“ROARK! ROARK I GOT IN!” You all but screamed as you raced through Oreburgh, flying past trainers and workers alike. In your hand you were waving a piece of paper, the words “We welcome you to Naranja Academy” sprawled across the top. “THEY ACCEPTED ME!”

“They did?” Roark, who had come running at your screams, whooped in joy as he gathered you up in his arms, spinning you around as you laughed and laughed. “That’s my (Y/N)! I knew they'd accept you! I knew it!”

“I’m going to Paldea!” You cheered, hugging him just as tight as he let you down on your feet. Then the reality of what was happening kicked in, dampening your mood. “I’m leaving Sinoh..”

“Hey, hey- no tears.” Roark smiled as he reached up, brushing your cheek. “This is a good thing! You’ll finally get to travel like you’ve always wanted!” He pinched your cheek gently. “My dear (Y/N)’s gonna be famous! Don’t forget me when you're the new champion, okay?”

“Ugh, you’re annoying!” You laughed, shoving him lightly. “Really though- I won’t be home for a year. I’m gonna miss you.”

“I will, too.” Finally, a drop of sadness entered his voice, the two of you sharing the moment as the world went on. “But,” he shook himself out of it, smiling once more. “I’ll come visit! Once you're settled in, you can give me a tour of the region and introduce me to all your new friends.”

“Hm, we’ll see. I might be too famous by then.” Yout teased, laughing as he pulled you along, the two of you arm in arm as you walked back to your shared apartment. You were gonna miss him when you were gone. “Promise you’ll at least video call me?”

“Everyday.” He swore, raising a pinky finger.

You tucked yours around his, smiling.

Send me a headcanon and character(s) and I'll write a short 300-500 word dabble for it!

#headcanons to dabbles #pokemon #roark #reader insert #Roark x reader #can be read either platonic or romantic #I just love him so much ahh! #fluff #acceptance letters #little nod towards Scarlet and Violet there towards the end

[regineau]

@rockheadcd—— roark sounds just a little openly concerned, “ you’re going a little overboard. ” does he know. does roark know who he's referring to. does he. ( either verse! ) —— x

over—fond &. positively bubbly voice dies down immediately, &. it might not be out of place for even a theatric scratch of the record to precede such sudden silence . only then does the ( former ) regina turn with uncharacteristic, slow movements, that heterochromatic blue stares at him in a narrowed gaze from just over the cusp of her shoulder . no ... he surely must not . nor must he be aware of just how fortunate he is— the veritable pendulum that is her mood has swung in a pleasant manner this evening .

❝     overboard ?     ❞  head whips about once more to take in the sight that is her beloved dracon . the beast looms in all its paradoxical glory, primal gaze seemingly affixed 'pon the man across the way— &. yet the threat of the prehistoric beast seems far &. away, decorated as it is . gorgeous specs balance precariously atop the paradox' snout, a black cape hangs tied about its neck &. to round the outfit out, a top hat rests atop one side of the walking wake's crest, mirroring her own .

❝     my dear friend . you ought to leave the discerning eye for fashion to me .     ❞  bucky the pachirisu is going to have one hell of a time trying to best this outfit in the visual competition .

#「★」 ―― AU.pkmn. #「★」 ―― ic. #step aside mine boy #furina has to go terrorize the kids in the normal rank contests

[flygefisk]

to celebrate d&d movie, here's my favorite d&d dragons!

roark my most beloved, dragonborn barbarian! i've remade him probably a dozen times and he's never had an int higher than 10. destroyer of puzzles, devourer of fantasy-racists.

lucky, the tiny tabaxi wizard with anger issues. his tiny bat familiar has more kills than he does

lyric who's actually from pathfinder, champion of my only completed campaign and the joke character who made me cry

serendipity, tiefling chef/warlock! he got 1 (one) kill and has a gun

dr vitali, secret vulture aarakocra cleric. revealed they were bird via dropping a dude from 50ft in the air

aaand the good doctor ginseng jones, purveyor of fine alchemical tinctures and elixirs, guaranteed to cure whatever ails you! grung alchemist, all his potions do is get you high and potentially deal 1d4 poison damage

#flight rising #dnd #i played seren for al for the giff pirate adventure #the Only kill he got was the giff captain. in one hit. #never saw the gun used so he doesnt even know its a weapon #its canonical but i dont think theyd honor it anymore rip

[rockheadcd]

@electrivolt​ said: "What... what's a lantern rite?"

The question is immediate the moment they return home, little ball of fur just a little reluctantly slipping out of his cozy spot between layers of fabric and instead opting to allow the fox to take a seat right on top of the table, tails swishing and legs crossed as he watches his human put aside the recent purchases. ( and waiting for his fish, too. roark better not forget that. )

"And why are so many people talking about it? Is it important? They sounded happy about it. And rushing. Do we have to do something too?" Has Roark forgotten to mention something to him again? He better explain now, his fox needs to know everything. / the gays go to a lantern rite p1. | accepting.

"Ah? Oh, right, I guess you would've never seen the rite from the outskirts beyond the mountain pass, huh," Roark pauses halfway between putting their basket of food for the week on a low counter, having let his small furball wiggle out from the depths of his jacket and onto the table. The market streets were bustling with crafts and materials, brightly colored lanterns strewn en masse and stalls being set up along the docks. Roark knew immediately by sheer habit, but this would have been Volkner's first, right? If Inazuma had anything similar, there was a good chance the kitsune was already ushered into hiding by then.

Well, then it's settled—he has to introduce him the right way. "It's a yearly celebration to bring in the new year. All the lantern material you see that's everywhere is so everyone can carve a wish into plaustrite, light a lantern with that wish, honor fallen heroes, and let go so it floats away." He continues while he organizes their plethora of meats and vegetables, sprinkling dash of salt on some of the cuts he's elected to be good for a curry and rice some time during the week. It's all fluid muscle memory. "When everyone releases them around the same time, the lanterns are like stars all grouped together—people come from all over to do this one thing together, guiding the honored home. It's really fun, and there's so much good food during the festival—" He whirls around, bounding over to the kitsune and taking his hands into his own, squeezing them and swinging them side to side, abandoning his beloved's tuna in his excitement. "And then—and then, there's the big mingxiao lantern that's built by everyone in Liyue and it's freaking huge and amazing and it's usually an adeptus but like! Watching it lift into the air after so much plaustrite! With the fireworks! Have you seen fireworks before, Volk?! They're so fun and colorful and loud and they explode into shapes now—it's so fun! Let's go and make our wishes together!"

Volkner can't say no to this adorable face, could he? ( not that roark was trying to convince him ) He only abruptly lets go to get back to the fresh slab of tuna that said kitsune had so politely ( read: kept pressing his cold snout into his chest ) reminded him to bring on the way home, separating food groups into their appropriate containers and placing them neatly into the icebox for later. Once Roark starts prepping the cutting board and his filet knife, Volkner will have his tuna in hand soon enough. That is, if he manages to get Roark to shut up.

"So you know those floaty rocks I've been coming home with recently? Those are the plaustrites! Civil Affairs usually asks for some level of procurement so they can guarantee enough people can engrave their wish, so needless to say, I like to do my part to help out with the lanterns. They allow the lantern to float away—I'll show you how it does it when I drop off this batch. Everyone that can do something usually does, whether it's gathering, or cooking, or even building the fireworks you'll see around. All if it is just for the celebration and charity in the end." With how happily he spoke about it, maybe it was an important tradition to him, one that he wanted to share with Volkner, now that he was here. “Everything is so delicious and vibrant along the docks, I have to show you everything there is to offer, if you’d have me! We can even make it a date and dress up nice, if that sounds fun to you, yeah?” 

It’s a miracle that he doesn’t manage to cut his fingers while he’s babbling excitedly, soon taking out a small dish to serve the freshest slices of tuna for the week for the fox in question, making sure there were no surprises of the parasitic variety, and upon finishing his examination, he comes back to Volkner to offer him his food. “So, you up for it?” 

#electrivolt #🌙 ��� / asks. #🗻 ━ 𝗂'𝗅𝗅 𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗐 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝗍𝗈𝗎𝗀𝗁 𝖼𝗈𝖺𝗅 𝗆𝗂𝗇𝖾𝗋'𝗌 𝗍𝗋𝗎𝖾 𝗌𝗍𝗋𝖾𝗇𝗀𝗍𝗁! / roark ic. #🌑 ━ 𝖾𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗁𝗌𝗉𝗅𝗂𝗍𝗍𝖾𝗋. / genpact verse. #roark you are SO normal about lantern rite jesus CHRIST.

[oldeubagel]

Roark..

#gym leader roark #roark my beloved #doodle

[arcanesprite]

#Roark my boy archen my beloved #pokemon roark #gym leader roark #archen

[electrivolt]

poke.mon Favourites!

FIRST GAME: yellow, it was my first console as well getting the gameboy color! fun fact i had a pikachu limited edition one that for the life of me i haven’t been able to find anywhere, it had pikachu and pichu on the sides and one of pikachu’s cheeks was overlapping with the on/off light of the gameboy, and it was semi transparent. it was cool as fuck i miss that gameboy :(

FAVOURITE SPINOFF GAME: mystery dungeons and rangers, to be even more exact explorers of sky and shadows of almia/guardian signs. mystery dungeons was my silly childhood dream of getting to play exclusively as a ‘mon and when i first played rangers it blew my mind how different it was and yet how cool it all was, both gameplay, story and the setting itself because getting to be a ranger was one of the coolest things i could think of. i still think a lot about those games they were just so good. 

FAVOURITE EVIL TEAM: team galactic, always team galactic, they still seem like one of the best teams to me to this day. they feel like one of the most actually dangerous teams of the games i’ve played that actually shows it, the lake bombing still sticks in my mind with how memorable that was not to mention spear pillar!! great team 10/10 nothing will top it for me

FAVOURITE TEAM LEADER: painfully obvious but cyrus, i could go on a 1 hour yt video essay on why he’s in my humble opinion the best team leader out there. i just think he’s neat and his ideals are smth wild and yummy to explore

FAVOURITE STARTER: rowlet because i love decidueye and ghosts are some of my favorites all around, but like. i could pick one for most gens. i love totodile i love turtwig i love snivy. help.

FAVOURITE BOX LEGENDARY: giratina. that’s my favorite legendary all around it’s never gonna be topped really

FAVOURITE POKEMON: can’t pick just one and go but i can narrow it down to very few ones actually excluding legendaries- luxray for sure, the whole line really but like. i love lux isn’t that obvious. big electric cat my beloved. mimikyu is another BIG one, i love mimikyu to death it’s just a lil guy that wants to be loved just a cute lil ghost that did nothing wrong AND THEN there’s gengar i love that mf it was actually my fave ghost type before mimikyu came along. espeon particularly is also a big fave though i don’t? really know why somehow?? but it’s my favorite eevolution all around. AND hisuian form zoroark i love that bastard ( to volkner’s dismey :) ) it’s such a cool regional variant concept ok-

if i had to mention legendaries ( other than gira ) there’s the obvious zappy bird and i’ll admit the galarian version is also p cool, the dogs are also pretty cool and lugia is one of my big favorites as well. there’s probably a few more but between technicalities of legendary vs mythical and all i can’t just sit here naming everyone

FAVOURITE PROFESSOR: admittedly i don’t really pay too much attention to the professors usually, but i think it’s rowan, i’d like him to be my grandpa

FAVOURITE RIVAL: barry my dear adhd crackhead child. i do remember using to like hugh a whole lot too as a kid when i first played bw2 but i cannot for the life of me remember why. i have to replay those games

FAVOURITE CHAMPION: cynthia! she’s always been great and so memorable, i just can’t help but be attached to her especially as my first “real” elite 4 challenge. steven is pretty close too for being weird

FAVOURITE CHARACTER (if not already covered): for obvious reasons it’s volk here but roark is neat too :) ( also for obvious reasons ). grusha and allister too though i got attached to these weird lil guys and i rlly want to go back to writing them if the mental illness allows me

FAVOURITE STORY: MMMMH WELL. i love the original dppt a whole lot, bw is also something i’m attached to a lot for many reasons, so i’d say those two are tied. i do have to add legends though because that fucked so hard

FAVOURITE MUSIC: i don’t. really pay attention a lot to the music but i guess the gym leader theme in galar is neat. some other stuff like the poke.mas remix kinda count too honestly and i really like some of the stuff in the og gen4

FAVOURITE REGION OVERALL: sinnoh all around. by extention hisui as well, like sinnoh already held a special place for me because it felt so alive and special with that care put into what is its own culture and the dedication to legendaries, and i love to have gotten hisui and to get to see the origins of so much of current sinnoh. unova is also a big favorite nearly as close to sinnoh with how much character it has and i have a lot of good memories of those games

#〔 ooc . 〕 ϟ power off . #// i robbed this from the dash. forgot about it #saw it again and it was half done so i might as wel finish

[twittercomfrnklin2001-blog]

The Lodger and "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper"

The middle film of a trio of Gothic horrors John Brahm directed for 20th Century-Fox in the 1940s, THE LODGER (1944, YouTube) improves on the first, THE UNDYING MONSTER (1942), but can’t hold a candle to the third, HANGOVER SQUARE (1945). Brahm and cinematographer Lucien Ballard copy some compositions from Fritz Lang’s great M (1932) with good reason. Both films are about the effect of s serial killer’s rampage on the city he ravages. Where the Lang focused on a child killer (Peter Lorre) whose compulsions are part of the film’s despondent world view, however, Brahm’s picture seeks to explain away Jack the Ripper (Laird Cregar) by having him kill former actresses because his beloved brother drank himself to death after an actress betrayed him. That’s all too pat to be believable in any but Hollywood terms, which manages to diminish the horror while also suggesting repressed homosexuality as the killer’s deeper motive. Which angers him more — that his brother died or that his brother preferred the actress’ company to his? Cregar is very good as the killer, wisely underplaying a lot of his early scenes, and Brahm shoots him to great effect. He looms over the other actors. Ballard fills the screen with shadows that heighten the sense of ambiguity about his character. And there are two good performances from Sara Allgood and Cedric Hardwicke as the couple renting rooms to Cregar. The real problem here is the casting of Merle Oberon as their niece, a music hall star who captures his fancy and incites his ire. She’s a competent actress and can be quite good in the right material. But her two musical numbers (dubbed) are limp noodles. She doesn’t have a dancer’s grace. It’s obvious the chorus girls are doing all the heavy lifting in what amounts to Mae West choreography (they dance, she moves in front of them), and her most strenuous moves are done in long shot and look doubled. Nor does she have the kind of charisma to suggest she could have been a musical star. Hell, she couldn’t even open for Luise Rainer in THE GREAT ZIEGFELD (1936).

My friend and I followed this with an appropriate THRILLER episode, “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” (1961, YouTube), well-directed by Ray Milland from a script by Barre Lyndon, who also adapted THE LODGER, this time drawing on a Robert Bloch story. Here Jack is haunting a modern American city, performing ritual murders to keep himself young. The focus is on British expert John Williams, who’s been tracking Jack’s Satanic murders for 30 years, but the real fun is in the supporting cast. Gloria Blondell (Joan’s sister) is a victim’s neighbor more concerned about the newspapers’ getting her name right than with her friend’s demise (sounds like a Wits End Players sketch), while Adam Roarke and Ottola Nesmith play eccentric artists in a salon run by police psychiatrist Donald Woods. The piece has some ridiculous moments, with Williams’ cigarette standing at attention as he watches stripper Beverly Hills, but it also has a great early score by Jerry Goldsmith.

#horror films #horror tv #jack the ripper #laird cregar #john brahm #merle oberon #sara allgood #cedric hardwicke #john williams #jerry goldsmith #ray milland

[byneddiedingo]

Gary Cooper in The Fountainhead (King Vidor, 1949) Cast: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Robert Douglas, Kent Smith, Henry Hull, Ray Collins. Screenplay: Ayn Rand, based on her novel. Cinematography: Robert Burks. Art direction: Edward Carrere. Music: Max Steiner. Ayn Rand, proponent of a "philosophy" beloved of 20-year-old frat-boy business majors, is still very much with us, as the would-be Randian Übermensch who recently inhabited the White House too well demonstrates. So it's probably worth brushing up on the ideas that seem to captivate perpetual adolescents and sociopaths. Fortunately, you don't have to slog through her doorstop novels to get the gist: All you have to do is watch The Fountainhead, for which she wrote the screenplay. Its sociopath hero, Howard Roark, would be intolerable if he weren't played by Gary Cooper, taking on a role that is a curious inversion of the "common man" he played for Frank Capra in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) or the pawn of the Establishment in Meet John Doe (1941). Cooper's occasional eye twinkles or wry smiles help keep us from believing that he's really the kind of arrogant shit who says things like "I don't give or ask for help" or "The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing." As Dominique Francon, Patricia Neal does a lot of seething and surging about; it's not a good performance by a long shot, but it's watchable. But Raymond Massey manages to give an almost good performance, even when forced to deliver lines like: "What I want to find in our marriage will remain my own concern. I exact no promises and impose no obligations. Incidentally, since it is of no importance to you, I love you." Was ever woman in this humor wooed? The real saving grace of The Fountainhead, however, is its director, King Vidor, whose career began and flourished in the silent era, with classics like The Big Parade (1925) and The Crowd (1928), which honed his visual sense before he had to work with dialogue. If The Fountainhead had been a silent movie, not cluttered with Rand's dialogue and sermonizing, it might have been a classic itself, especially since it had a first-rate cinematographer in Robert Burks and a clever set designer in Edward Carrere. Max Steiner's overbearing score also helps distract us from the clanking and clattering of Rand's screenplay. The Fountainhead, in short, is a hoot, but a perversely fascinating one.

#The Fountainhead #King Vidor #Gary Cooper'

[mossystarr]

following the pokemon tag on like any site is sooooo nice until i remember only a fraction of the fanbase cares about the trainers (the part im interested in most) and 90% of the tag is people drawing the pokemon themselves . agony. i love me a pikachu as much as the next guy but where are my beloved trainers... my roarks my ns my cogitas......... you feel me