#the borgias review

[earlgodwin]

hot take but the borgia apocalypse script was actually pretty good, and the characterizations were spot on. it's mindboggling how some fans hated on it solely because they expected a sunshine and rainbows ending between cesare and lucrezia. the truth is, they were never meant to be a pure fairytale couple. the most compelling aspect of their relationship is their intense toxic codependency and destructive dynamic. their obsession with each other consumed the energy, love, affection, and innocence of those around them, leading to tragic outcomes for anyone who got close to them. neil jordan stayed true to the plot with the apocalypse script, unlike what we saw in the s3 finale. despite cesare proclaiming his devotion to lucrezia and claiming to prioritize her happiness, he hurt her by killing alfonso and betraying her, alongside rodrigo, while keeping her in the dark about their plan. cesare ultimately turned out to be just like his father—his mirror image, his favorite chess piece, and a future king and pope. it was captivating to watch both rodrigo and cesare spiral into ambition and murder, becoming sociopaths. personally, i'm fascinated with the idea of cesare and lucrezia's relationship growing darker and cesare prioritizing his political gain, which terrifies lucrezia. this is the direction cesare's character would have headed if the show hadn't been canceled and if showtime had allowed neil jordan to film the script. 'world of wonders' should have been the episode that made the audience realize cesare was a manipulative, self-contradicting psychopath but alas! anyway, in the apocalypse script, he reaches the last stage of becoming a complete monster (for example, *spoilers* when he cuts off catrina's lips and poisons naples' water, killing half the city). this transformation occurs as he loses the remaining traces of humanity that were present in the first three seasons. valid criticism of the rushed nature of the script is understandable. jordan didn't have time to edit it and only released it to console devastated fans. i'm confident that his final draft would have been 100% better than what we have. in short, there's no way someone as genius as him would ruin the show he created with a disappointing ending or ooc moments. so if there's an opportunity for him to adapt it for the screen, it would be a serve as i enjoyed the overall conclusion of the story

#like bro idk what to tell you the reviews about the script had me giggle like y'all cannot be serious helpppp #wdym you need a happy ending because the show is literally made like its a tragic opera #the borgias #the borgias apocalypse #lucrezia borgia #cesare borgia #rodrigo borgia #neil jordan #borgia #text post

[anghraine]

So there was this really terrible review of The Borgias back in the day that complained about Jeremy Irons, of all people:

“Irons, as lean and elegant as men are made, exudes passion aplenty, but that passion burns with the steely flame of the North, not with Latin fire”

Yeah.

Anyway, when I was writing a paper on the Borgias for school, I vented about that specific sentence to my friends. In retrospect, though, I'm kind of grateful for it, because "steely flame of the North" ended up just entering our collective vocabulary for any number of occasions. It's like:

Friend: I think [other friend] hates X even more than you do.

Me, trying to sound neutral: Possibly.

Friend: Well, maybe. You do burn with the steely flame of the North.

#thanks terrible reviewer lol #anghraine babbles #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #magnificent bastards of the vatican #borgias fanwank

[that-pissed-off-tolkien-blogger]

The fact that I had to correct someone in a masters level class that Elizabeth saying Camilla’s title would be Queen Consort when Charles became king was a power play wasn’t actually a power play, but merely stating fact is fucking ridiculous

#TOLK Man rants #school problems #not fandom #anyway back to the Borgias and this fucking book review #not me being in the middle of reading a sentence about Rodrigo Borgia and realizing my grammar on this post was all kinds of fucky

[readerviews]

"Borgia Rose: The Poisoning of Richland County" by K.D. Allbaugh

This riveting historical thriller will haunt you! #books #bookreview #reading #readerviews

Borgia Rose: The Poisoning of Richland County K.D. Allbaugh Battle Ridge Rising Sun Press (2023)ISBN: 978-1736080924Reviewed by Tammy Ruggles for Reader Views (09/2023) “Borgia Rose: The Poisoning of Richland County” by K.D. Allbaugh, is a historical mystery that will haunt you. This exceptionally written novel begins with Rose, a woman who lives in a time and place where appearances and social…

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[humanityinahandbag]

took an edible, got high (still high), and decided to try and find roller coaster tycoon on steam and ended up in the reviews section and yippee ki-gay i hit the fucking jackpot

Like this very honest (and earnestly sweet at first) self critique:

Or what about this wonderful pro/con list of more expensive game options:

This person right here is a master of sound and acoustics, an appreciator of auditory Borgia.

There were some reviews from tech people as well who gave super helpful advice. I just thought that this dude had the best description I've ever heard for annoying little bugs on the computer. I want this person to write newspaper headlines.

And this one?

Shakespeare.

And here's even more brutal honesty from people who understand just how feral we were as kids and probably continue to be as adults. Every one of us was apparently living childhood with the gumption and drive of a pack of raccoons stuck in a dumpster. Our only goals were anarchy and OSHA violations.

And when they quote the game, it reads like an ominous short sci-fi apocalyptic horror story.

But my favorite probably would be this incredible set of reviews that Steam dropped right beside one another that absolutely describe the game in what I can only describe as a visual masterpiece.

10/10 ⭐️ Guest 203 Has Drowned :D

want to blaze this post because you get it

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[adarkrainbow]

BD reviews: The good, the okay and the bad

Today's review - L'origine des contes, by Philippe Bonifay

France has a deep and intimate history with fairytales. My blog mostly focuses on literature, and I already did a few jumps in the domain of cinema - but this French presence of fairytales also expands into the most French of all media... THE BD! La BD! Aka, "bande-dessinée". Yes, it is technically just the French translation of the English term "comic book" - but I do like to keep the original appelation BD because the European BD (especially the Franco-Belgian BD) and the American comic books, while similar by many ways, are also very different by many other aspects - different sale techniques, different formats, different materials, very different histories and rules...

So, I wanted to do a quick dive into a handful of fairytale-related BD (not all because there's a HUGE amount of fairytales BD). I'll cover here four in a row, more or less extensively, and I want to begin with a series I deem to be a bad one. "A l'origine des contes". "At the origin of fairytales". A series written by Philippe Bonifay and released in three volumes in 2013 - each volume with a different artist and focusing on a different fairytale (Pinocchio by Thibaud de Rochebrune ; Snow White by Fabrice Meddour ; and Bluebeard by Stephane Duval)

I have only read two of the volumes - not the Pinocchio one. Everybody keeps saying the Pinocchio tome ("tome" sounds in English like "tome of eldritch lore" or a "grimoire" but in French what English folks call "comic book volume", we call "un tome de bande-dessinée" so I'll use tome for simplification) is the best in terms of art and story, but the other two ones left me such a sour taste I don't know if I will even take a look at it or not.

This series offers and proposes a very simple concept. "What if there was an actual, historical, realistic origin to the fairytales we know today? What if there was a REAL, and darker, story behind these childhood classics?". Each volume has as a narrative frame a fictional version of the ones who wrote the fairytales (Perrault for Bluebeard, the Grimm brothers for Snow White etc...), and proceeds to present us a dark, harsh story between the tragedy and the horror tale, set in a defined country at a defined time period, and that supposedly "inspired" the fairytales. Of course, this is all fictional pretense, as the author clearly wasn't interested in getting the actual folkloric or historical roots of the fairytales, and merely wanted to invent a darker, realistic alternative to the classics and present them through his BD.

In itself, it isn't a bad thing - as in, the series clearly does not pretend to be actual historical document, it is very clearly all fictional, and we had a lot of "realistic and darker, time-period" retelling of fairytales. In concept it basically evoked to me Maguire's "Mirror, Mirror" (I have not read Maguire's book, but based on everything I heard about it, the rough concept seemed to be the same). "A l'origine des contes" keeps popping up when you go searching for "adult BD about fairytales" - and the cover and general presentation already prepares you for a violent, mature and dark story. Just the cover of the Snow-White one depicts an axe-wielding woman with bloody snow surrounding her, and her breasts half-out of her corset. This establishes the "adult" trend. But what I was NOT expecting was for this to be one of those "bad" adult series.

There was a wave of "edgy" adult BDs at the turn of the century, whose entire topic was to present some sort of serious, dark story, preferably of historical inspiration, while adding in it a lot of shocking gore and a lot of nude women and a lot of sex scenes, at the detriment of the actual historic elements. A perfect example of this would be Jodorowsky's "Borgia" BD, a 2000s series centered around the life of the Borgia family - or rather based on their dark legend as a clan of corrupted, murderous, incestuous, proto-mafioso who poisoned everybody, defiled religion and took control of Rome... And it decided to amplify the dark legend even more. Deaths and mutilations and incestuous sex and gratuitous sexual perversity and plague and religious fanaticism all thrown together with as a pseudo-plot the historical political and religious manipulations of Rodrigo Borgia, and the dysfunctions of his broken family. Compared to this, "Game of Thrones" looks tame.

However, despite "Borgia" being basically a "historical snuff movie", it had something that "A l'origine des contes" does not have. It is FUN. As in, weird, perverse, classic slasher-fun. It does everything in such extremes and with such outlandish extent and it amplifies everything so much it becomes almost a gory parody and you just laugh at it all - and while it is clearly all hyper-fictional, it does take inspiration from the actual rumors, legends and claims surrounding the Borgias, it is merely a twisted mirror of their ACTUAL dark myth. But "A l'origine des contes"? Despite being much tamer in terms of sex and gore than "Borgia", and thus being more palatable, it lacks any kind of fun or interest - precisely because it keeps itself "contained" and "grounded", the bad elements pop out more (like the gratuity of nudity, or the lack of need for X violent scene to happen), and by literaly removing all the magic of the fairytales but replacing it with nothing, it produces a dreary and frankly boring thing... But worse crime of all: there's almost no real basis or interesting link or true twisting mirror of the original fairytales!

To give you an example of what I mean by that, I'll talk of the first volume I read: Bluebeard.

The so-called "real" story of Bluebeard is that there were in the Middle-Ages (well it's supposed to be the Middle-Ages but a recurring theme in this series is that clearly no historical research was made and the artist and author just threw whatever they wanted in there) beautiful twins - but one, after surviving the plague, became ugly. They grew up wanting to become great artists - but the ugly and deformed brother ended up drowning in his bitterness at being the "ugly, hidden one" while his lovely brother got all the praise and love. And the deformed twin growing madder and madder, he starts becoming murderous... You start thinking "Oh, I see, so this is what was hidden in that forbidden room, the murderous twin! And the one who killed wives wasn't Bluebeard by his evil double!". The latter is true: here, all of Bluebeard's wives were killed by his envious and mad twin. The first sentence howeve turns out massively wrong because of the final wife, of the blood-stained key, of Bluebeard's house/castle, we have no trace! In fact, the only two elements Bonifay kept from the original story were "A) A guy name Bluebeard B) has lots of wives that end up killed". And that's literaly it - nothing else from the original fairytale is taken, and in fact, if it wasn't for the iconic name of Bluebeard, you wouldn't even KNOW this was supposed to be a Bluebeard adaptation.

Many people pointed out that Bonifay clearly had here an inspiration and influence from Gothic tales or the fantastique genre - he pushed the original story of Perrault towards the grounds of "Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde", and "The Portrait of Dorian Gray"... But he pushed so far it basically ends up being its own story with barely any relationship to the original one. In fact, it feels VERY strongly as if Bonifay had an idea for a different BD, couldn't get published, and recycled it for his Fairytale series. This is just about a guy trying to escape his murderous shadow-twin, who keeps killing all of his wives, no matter how far he goes - because, and I rolled my eyes there and skipped the whole arc because come on ; because he even goes to THE DEEPEST PARTS OF AFRICA and marries there a girl from some random tribe, and I just skipped it all ahead... Oh yes the whole "artist" plot is also involved here, because the murdered wives are used by the mad twin brother for some sort of grandiose sculpture the brothers had planned since teenagehood. And if you want to know the reason why Bluebeard is called Bluebeard, it could have been interesting but it is delivered in such a silly way: the good-looking twin got a knife-wound on his chin that made it so that he had a hairless spot in his beard, and to cover it up he wore a beard-jewel with a sapphire on it, hence the "Bluebeard" nickname.

Overall my main grief was that, despite supposedly telling the "true story of Bluebeard", it offered us... something completely different, an entirely different and un-fairytale like story that seems to have been hastily stitched into the Bluebeard mythos. But I still decided to go on and check another tome of the series...

The Snow-White one. And... again, a disappointment and that's where I decided I wouldn't finish the trilogy.

It is too bad because there, at least the story clearly was a reflecton of "Snow-White", and there were some cool ideas in here. For example - a link formed between the dwarves and the "evil stepmother"! (She isn't queen here, Snow's father being... a count or marquis, or something, i can't recall well). I haven't seen a lot Snow White adaptations that decide to give something personal tying the dwarfs to the evil stepmother. Here, the evil stepmother used to be a scheming, ambitious circus-girl that ended up marrying Snow White's father pretending to be someone else (at least I think...), and ultimately, to get rid of her shameful past, set fire to the barn where her whole circus family was sleeping a few days before her wedding. And the dwarfs, as it turns out, were circus dwarfs who were part of the same team as the evil stepmother, and survived the fire, and still hold a grudge against her for killing their family. That's a neat and cool idea!

Similarly, the ending of the tale was also very interesting - to show how the tale is a "realistic" one that the Grimms "reinvented" into a magical one, in the historical story Snow White ends up actually dying, killed by her evil stepmother, and she only "survives in her glass coffin" because the dwarfs that had sheltered her grieve her and carry on her memory until their own death... That's a very cool and beautiful idea to oppose the sad reality of the death of a beloved young girl with the fairytale logic of "dead princesses come back to life thanks to their prince charming".

But unfortunately this comic still has so many flaws it becomes a dreary, bleak and even boring read. The tale is muddled, there's again gratuitous nudity (such as the evil stepmother getting undressed to "pay" the hunter she hired to kill Snow White) so blatantly un-needed (especially since the whole point of the stepmother's character was that she was tired of being used like a prostitute by the circus she came from), the framing device of the brothers Grimm commenting the tale they are reading is POSITIVELY USELESS (as in, they basically just do "Oh!" or "Ah!" or repeat what we just saw as readers - this felt like so much waste of ink and paper and space)... Oh yes, and there's also the problem of the defective print!

This isn't something exclusive to the copy I read - other reviewers online pointed it out. This tome got a big misprint issue resulting in the text of several speech bubbles being displaced onto other speech bubbles, or the dialogue of one page being interverted with the one of another page, making the story even more confusing and incomprehensible...

In conclusion: I do not recommend these comics, except if you are a fan of the artists who made each issue. But in terms of fairytale adaptations, or even of "dark fairytales", they're just... bad, and unrelated, and very poor. And I am sad THESE got promoted whenever there's talk of "adult fairytale BD".

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This waistcoat was first spotted in the 1994 adaptation of Middlemarch on Rufus Sewell as Will Ladislaw. It was used again the next year on Colin Firth as Mr.Darcy in the 1995 Pride and Prejudice. 

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This beautifully beaded jacket was first seen on Ann Sothern as Flo Addams in the 1940 film Brother Orchid.  It was used again in the 1942 movie The Big Shot, where it was worn by Irene Manning as Lorna Fleming.

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[lostinfic]

Chapter 6/8: Family Reunion

Pairing: Cesare x Lucrezia Borgia

Rating: E

May 1944 In her most desperate hours, Lucrezia seeks refuge in memories of the beach in Santa Marinella, where Cesare used to take her. She plays them like a movie in her mind. She sits in a slice of sunshine on the bed and closes her eyes. The red velvet curtains part, the projector reels and on the screen of her eyelids, Cesare’s smile appears. His smile always seemed brighter, unburdened, on those days they left Rome and their worries behind. In the next scene, she sees herself, younger, holding down her straw hat as she looks out the open train window. Her chest would swell with a feeling of freedom. She imagines that’s how it will feel when she gets out of here. Today, she’s too impatient to review the details of those beach trips, and skips straight to a slow motion scene of Cesare coming out of the water, his strong body glistening wet. Oh, how her breath would catch in her throat at the sight of him. And then how blessedly cool his skin would feel against her sun-heated one...

#The Borgias #Cesare/Lucrezia #Borgiacest #Santa Marinella was a throwaway line in chapter 1 #but it has taken a life of its own #somehow my characters almost always end up by the water #lostinfic writes stuff

[theold-ultraviolence]

What about modern!aemond’s favorite tv shows/comfort shows?

Once again, sorry for the wait, friend!! GOSH this is even harder than the books questions because I'm so shit at watching shows, so I've less to pull from lol! I do have a couple of ideas in mind though

Mindhunter (haven't actually seen it, but I know it was created by David Fincher and have heard crazy good reviews about it. It seems to me that Aemond would really dig psychologycal thriller/mystery/detective shows. Something substantial that really makes him think!)

I feel like he'd be into period dramas, like The Hollow Crown, The Borgias, Downton Abbey, The Crown, etc. (From these I've only watched The Hollow Crown and loved it!)

Seriously I feel like he'd be all BBC everything lmao! and his #1 comfort show would maybe be The Great British Bake Off. I can just picture him chilling at home with his dogs, under the blankets, and yelling at the TV about the judge's critique! And it'd be like a family thing to watch, like, it's a RULE that you CANNOT watch it without him or skip ahead. You must watch this together or else he's not gonna speak to you in a week (he's just exagerating though. But he does wanna watch it with you every time so you can comment on it)

And also he'd be such an old man and be into Midsummer Murders from BBC. My mom's the one who watches it all the freaking time and it makes me laugh every time I hear the intro song. I feel like anyone who's anyone in the U.K. acting scene has appeared in it lmao.

There's also a show that I used to like called, 'Shakespear Uncovered' where actors that are known for having played Shakespearean characters go on a journey of research and stuff about the context and interpretation of a specific play over time.

AND there's this show that I do love called 'Fake or Fortune' where two curators/art historians embark on super in-depth research about works of art to find out if they're fakes or originals! I feel like he'd love that one.

(Here I am saying I don't watch shows and then proceed to name a bunch of 'em lmao)

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[earlgodwin]

okay i know you've mentioned/answered this a million times but i would love to get your top recommendations for borgias published books and content.

i haven't really ventured into those selections but i really want to take the leap into that realm and buy/borrow some books and read them..!

(also i'm curious if you read many fanfictions for the borgias, and if so do you have any good recs?)

💞

hi <33! no worries at all! i love being asked questions about everything related to the borgias, as i get very enthusiastic about them. now, let's start with my favorite borgias biographies:

maria bellonci's 'lucrezia borgia' because i'm very obsessed with accuracy and avoiding cliché biased narratives. it's such a solid read really! it also portrays lucrezia in a way that i've always believed she was—a completely misunderstood woman who is a pawn in the power and ambition games of her father and brother. but deep down, she's just a silly, pretty poetry lover who's guilty by association. this book also debunks cesare's supposed "jealousy" towards juan as the shows how much he loves him (based on the letters to each other) and that rodrigo has always loved his children equally, which is a cherry on top lol.

emma lucas's 'lucrezia borgia.' while it's not entirely accurate because it satisfies my beloved (but not accurate) 'lucrezia is a femme fatale and not saintly' narrative (which i love, by the way), i'm fascinated by how it unexpectedly delves deep into her family, especially rodrigo, cesare, and juan. it also provides great anecdotes about the characters so there's that. despite having negative reviews, the biography is actually very well-written and highly entertaining! fuck the gossip!

christopher hibbert's 'the borgias and their enemies.' for some reason, i keep forgetting to recommend this book to my friends. i tend to get easily investedwith any borgia book that focuses on the pope and his children, providing narratives without forcing you to choose what to believe. the author obviously conducted extensive research before publishing it because when reading a biography (not historical fiction), i prefer to avoid biased perspectives that can be heavily misleading. i also appreciate the fact that machiavelli (and other important figures) plays an important role in this biography because i'm always excited about him.

ferdinand gregorovius' 'lucretia borgia according to original documents and correspondence of her day'. it's also a very unbiased excellent piece of history that is full of validated source. and i just adore how the author is pro-lucrezia as well.

samantha morris' 'cesare and lucrezia: brother and sister of history's most vilified family' is also well documented and well researched! while cesare was given more depth than lucrezia, still, lucrezia's character in this biography is more colorful. obviously the most popular narrative for the borgia family is them being incestuous, corrupt and violent, a family to be feared, but the author suggests otherwise as she sets out to prove this is not the full story and she does make a good argument! as she detailed how they've been portrayed by mainstream media as well as detailing what happened to their descendants.

sarah bradford's 'lucrezia borgia.' okay, so this one isn't a favorite of mine, but i'd recommend it to you or anyone who's a huge fan of ceslu. it's written like a love story biography exclusively about them. while i like how she wrote about ceslu, i heavily dislike how she wrote about juan and rodrigo and how she portrayed them based on narratives from the family's enemies. the author also manipulated a letter about the envoy boccaccio, which is supposed to praise both brothers. but instead, the author just one-upped him with cesare by dunking on him, which i personally find lame and intensely inaccurate since juan borgia was pretty much loved by his wife, his family, and his friends based on the retrieved documents and letters. that being said, i do enjoy the ceslu parts, of course, and i believe any fan of showtime's 'the borgias' who ships ceslu would enjoy this book and its fluent writing and can easily ignore the negatively inaccurate narratives about the other members of the family.

that's all for the biography books! now let's start with historical fiction:

sarah dunant's 'blood and beauty'. one thing about me is that i'm never gonna stop praising this book because it is absolutely my favorite historical fiction book about this extraordinary family! again, i get so invested in any book when the author does extensive research. also, if you're looking for a book about this family that reads like an episode of showtime's 'the borgias,' then this book is your go-to! full of interesting dynamics, and yes, cesare is as cruel and megalomaniacal as history and machiavelli portrayed him, lucrezia as a victim of her father and brother's political ambitions game, and juan as the flawed kid who was eventually sunk deep when he got dragged into his father's ambitions game. while the book doesn't provide a deeper exploration of the characters' psyche, it's more focused on the story by making it very engaging and sheds light on their complex relationships and their rise to power. and every character is highly sympathetic as the author brilliantly humanizes them. in short, it is emotionally intriguing and a must-read for the borgias enjoyers.

mario puzo's 'the family'. you know, i wasn't even surprised a bit that this book's writing and story being groundbreaking because after all, it is written by the author of 'the godfather'. the family is such a compelling book, such tender writing when it comes to lucrezia and cesare. the story becomes intriguing the more you read. i also loved puzo's portrayal of rodrigo as this family man who deeply loves his children yet he uses them as pawns (which is also similar to jeremy irons' portrayal). while i gotta criticize that the characters have no depth and his version of lucrezia as this damsel angel for her father and brother is, uhhh… quite boring. i like her when she's multilayered lol. i also think the way he tried to present cesare and give him the "from zero to hero" trope in order to make him relatable is also lame because cesare's success as a historical figure is because he was calculating and wicked, and definitely not a bitter loser. i mean, i could absolutely ignore the bitterness part, but at least françois arnaud's cesare added so many layers and swag in the characters, therefore you could ignore it. but i can overlook all that when there's an engaging story and great writing, no matter what the characterizations are like. so overall, it's impressive and entertaining, and you will definitely enjoy it.

regarding fanfiction; i'm sorry but i never read any because i feel quite satisfied by all 'the borgias' show canon that we have and all these historical books. i wish i could help with recommending fics :/

thank you very much for the question, and i hope this post answers it. have a great day 💕🫶

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[the-revisionist]

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[supremeuppityone]

Aesthetic for my Klaroline one-shot, Chapter 197: Woman’s Work, in my series, A Beautiful Symmetry.

Klaroline AU historical fusion loosely based on an episode of The Borgias. Lord Klaus was less than pleased to be betrothed to a lady of such questionable character. But then he met the feisty blonde, and discovered a beautiful soul with intriguing secrets.

You can read and review here.

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[gellavonhamster]

monthly media recap: february 2023

short month, short list

read:

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - glad I gave this novel a second chance! Very interesting, extremely funny, everyone's kind of an asshole but in an entertaining way. Constance deserved better but what else is new. I have a lot of thoughts on some specific ways in which the show differs from the books (which is. A lot of ways. Van Helsing (2004) vs. Dracula the actual novel kind of a lot of ways), but I’d better leave this for when I will have read books 2 and 3

The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge - bookcrossing finds, part 1: a Norse mythology-inspired novel about a girl who is Odin's descendant. The style and romance are already far too YA to me (especially romance - the only thing about it that I didn’t find dull was that the guy was hiding something dark, but it was never fully elaborated on), and generally I think I would've liked it better as a movie, but it's an okay one-time read

Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales by Soman Chainani - bookcrossing finds, part 2. Fairytale retellings just seem to find me themselves this year. Some of the stories I liked (especially Cinderella and Bluebeard), some seemed boring, some were okay but had some detail that felt jarring to me. The style is meh, but that may be translation's fault. I think this one and The Twisted Tree shall have to leave me the same way they came to me - I don’t have enough space on my bookshelves anymore to keep the books I don’t like that much. Hopefully eventually they’ll find an owner who would keep them :)

+ progress on the Vulgate Cycle: working my way through The Story of Merlin. Also, halfway into Twenty Years After, the sequel to The Three Musketeers.  

watched:

Peau d'âne / Donkey Skin (1970) - first of all, it's VERY beautiful. Secondly, it's also a tad weird and unsettling, but then again, so is the original fairytale (though I don’t recall the version I read, uh, relishing the potential incest that much). Thirdly, the fairy godmother being a time traveler was a fun idea

The Cell (2000) - really cool! Suspenseful, imaginative, visually stunning. The reviews saying the plot was too confused... maybe to YOU, lol

Mirror Mirror (2012) - it's very funny, cute, and beautifully filmed, but I'm afraid I'm unable not to compare any adaptation of Snow White that I watch to Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997), and nothing will ever be quite as good as it

+ watching The Borgias, as you surely have noticed; currently at s3.

#talk talk talk #monthly media recap

[scribblesandsorcery]

Five Songs

@ohhalefire tagged me (thank you!) to list five songs I've been listening to lately.

Holy (Til You Let Me Go) by Rina Sawayama - This album dropped right after I'd spent a week or so revisiting some childhood trauma and tbh it really enhanced the listening experience. I've had the whole album on repeat ever since.

Quel guardo il cavaliere...So anch'io la virtù magica from Don Pasquale - I'm trying to put together my thoughts enough to write a piece on why the use of music from Don Pasquale in Hannibal is both extremely on the nose but also deeply weird to me as someone who's done the opera, so I've been reviewing the show because it's been nearly a decade since I did it when did I get this old 😭

Cassandra by Florence + The Machine - This song is how I discovered that I get my stock sound effects from the same place as Florence + The Machine.

19sai by Suga Shikao - A fixture in the majority of my playlists. It has great vibes for most of the photoshoots I do.

D'amor sull'ali rosee from Il trovatore - The Per pietà, ben mio perdona to Tacea la notte's Come scoglio. I'm revamping my audition set, and this one and the Lucrezia Borgia arias are my Italian options.

I tag @celta-diabolica @radiowrites and @bedeliainwonderland 🖤

#tag game #music

[jennaflare]

this is my favorite review for the borgias finale script. my guy totally missed all the gayish scenes prior to this I guess

#The borgias

[feluka]

I posted 3,724 times in 2022

686 posts created (18%)

3,038 posts reblogged (82%)

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I tagged 2,537 of my posts in 2022

Only 32% of my posts had no tags

#0 - 70 posts

#tales of the abyss - 470 posts

#queue - 464 posts

#for heroes there are trials. for saints there are temptations. for me there is queue. - 318 posts

#luke fon fabre - 132 posts

#jade curtiss - 119 posts

#zero escape - 105 posts

#tales of symphonia - 105 posts

#cats - 92 posts

#ace attorney - 81 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#my post is getting quoted on discord??? that's awesome and makes me happy. i hope you all have a good laugh out of this for a long time ♡♡♡

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

"Jumpy, have you ever heard the name, [Goncharov]?"

-Goncharov... Can't say it rings a bell. Is that some sort of scientist?

"It's a movie, actually. About the Italian mob. Goncharov is the eponymous protagonist."

-Hang on a second, Italian? I thought Goncharov was a Russian name.

"Well, yes. But the movie takes place in Italy. That's not important right now. What's strange about this movie is, although it was supposedly released in 1973, it only gained attention in 2022."

-Almost five decades later... marketing really flubbed that one, huh?

"That's not it. The movie doesn't exist."

-Wait, what? What do you mean it doesn't exist?

"It never did. There was never a movie called Goncharov. Only one day in 2022 the internet started talking about it as if it was real. As if everyone had already seen it."

-That... that has to be a prank, right? I mean it wouldn't be the first time the internet took a liking to spreading lies, would it?

"That's true. Especially on tumblr, where the phenomenon originated. But what if there's more to it? What if the knowledge of that movie was "plucked" from some alternative timeline where the movie was critically acclaimed, and "transmitted" to our timeline through fields invisible to the naked eye?"

-C'mon. That's insane. Isn't it way more likely that tumblr was, y'know, being tumblr?

"Maybe. But isn't it strange that the name of the movie, its director, its cast of characters, the actors playing them, and the year of its release was unanimously agreed upon by one of the most inconsistent and chaotic blogging websites out there?"

-Th... that's...

"I'm not done yet. Not only that, but the events of story, the relationships between the characters, interviews with the cast, audio recordings of the movie score, fandom discourse, and multiple gifsets of the movie footage started appearing on everyone's dashboards. And none of the information contradicted each other."

-!

-(Could that really be? A movie that was transmitted to the public consciousness from another timeline...?)

2,509 notes - Posted November 22, 2022

#4

3,172 notes - Posted November 4, 2022

#3

straight girls hanging out: omggg ilysm 😍 my baby my gf my wifey my everything love of my life. you have bitched me body and soul

gay girls hanging out: are you familiar with cantarella? it’s something that was used by the borgia family in italy long ago. a poison. how do you like these cookies? i made them myself. what a coincidence. i put posion in your tea. that tea is delicious. so are these cookies.

3,627 notes - Posted July 29, 2022

#2

some classes look like this

4,278 notes - Posted October 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

just accidentally said 'sensory overlord' instead of overload today in therapy. new neurodivergent final boss just dropped

10,932 notes - Posted July 24, 2022

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#year in review #LMAO I REBLOGGED FROM MYSELF THE MOST?? THAT DOESNT SOUND RIGHT #also yeah tota being no. 1 sounds right #also hiiii xiomara hiii cliff hiii slydiddledeedee hii cheshirepirouette hii friends!!! sorry if i ever clogged your notes!!