René Bull (1872-1942), ''The Mammoth Wonder Book for Children'', 1935
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ok ok i know we all love the happy ending for yassen but let me be emotional abt Alex's happy ending in s3 ok - warning for spoilers of the book for those of you who haven't read them
i just can't stop thinking about what book!alex would say if he could just get to see that moment when Alex comes home and goes straight into the embrace of Jack and Tom, if he could see the Kyra kiss, if he could see the resignation of Alan Blunt, and the promise of Mrs. Jones, seeing Yassen explicitly saving his life more than once. It just makes me so happy and emotional that there is now a canon alternate universe where Alex didn't have to see Sarov shoot himself in the head right in front of him, where he didn't have to feel so lost and isolated and scared that he joins Scorpia and tbh looses himself for a while. An au where he doesn't have to watch Jack seemingly get murdered. Where he doesn't have to live with that guilt, carry it everywhere and then be responsible for Jack's eventual release from Scorpia. An AU where he doesn't have to get to know Ash, the only biological family he has left, only to be betrayed by him.
Book!alex seems tired to me, quite often. He must be asking "why me, why do I have to do this". But I think that if we showed him tv!alex's ending, his future prospects, like the doctor showing vincent van gogh the future at the museum, book!alex would just go "ok. I'll do it so he doesn't have to" and it is breaking and healing my heart at the same time
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The story behind the pictures
“At first Elvis sent photographs at no charge, but when the requests multiplied, he requested twenty-five cents for each picture or eight cents a piece for mass orders. One of the first pictures he sent out was a dreamy-eyed head shot— the result of Elvis’ first professional photo session
‘He came off like dynamite,’ recalled Bill Speer, whose lens captured Presley in late 1954. ‘As soon as I sat him in front of the camera, I knew he had it’. Speer’s wife, Vacil, was certainly impressed the evening Bob Neal brought Elvis to the studio. ‘Oh, I opened that door, and his animal charm, his animal magnetism!’
When Bill finished taking the requisite portraits of Elvis in a sports coat and shirt, the photographer said, ‘Well, if that’s all the clothes you brought, I guess we’re done’
‘No honey,’ Vacil protested. ‘Get him to take his shirt off!’. Though the young singer at first protested, he at last shyly unbuttoned his shirt and slipped it off
When he was later sent copies of the shirt-less shots, Elvis scrutinized one of them and scribbled on the back ‘This one has got to go! Ha ha ha!’
Elvis returned to Speer’s studio to have some portrait shots of his girlfriend, Barbara Hearn. During this meeting, Speer thinks he may have offended Elvis. According to Speer, while he was concentrating on photographing Barbara, Elvis was in the next room and began singing, when Speer said, ‘Stop the racket! I’m trying to take a picture’. After that, Speer never met Elvis again…”
(story courtesy of “Down at the End of the Lonely Street” by Pat Broeske & Peter Brown and the website Elvis Echoes of the Past)
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She did not shrink back, though the pupils of her eyes dilated. Was it the wildest thing in the world which happened to her—or was it not? Without warning—the sudden rush of a thought, immense and strange, swept over her body and soul and possessed her—so possessed her that it changed her pallor to white flame. It was actually Anstruthers who shrank back a shade because, for the moment, she looked so near unearthly.
“I am not afraid of you,” she said, in a clear, unshaken voice. “I am not afraid. Something is near me which will stand between us—something which DIED to-day.”
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behold: my artistic contribution to the small but enthusiastic You Should Totally Read The Shuttle (1907) By Frances Hodgson Burnett campaign
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Currently reading: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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