sing out, louise

bread for all, and roses too. often thinking about 18th-century england

[glintglimmergleam]

imagine bridgerton if eloise had a gun

[vividciggy]

Nona doodles 🪼

[glintglimmergleam]

right at the beginning of the first episode of Dublin Murders, they're at a crime scene at a grocery store (not in the book) and Cassie's leaning over the till counter to view the murder victim. She's so short that Rob wordlessly brings her a stepstool and then hooks a finger in her back belt loop to keep her from tipping over as she leans.

I saw that 5 second shot of him bracing her and went: YES that silent, unnegotiated intimacy -- boundaries but not boundaries -- is exactly right, their level of smooth working partnership and latent physical attraction that will blow up in their faces soon.

The showrunners understood perfectly how to translate Rob's POV narration into these little visual cues of how comfortable and close they are with each other right now. So so good.

[glintglimmergleam]

I will prob have more to say about Dublin Murders later. I still do think the first half of the season is excellent. The ending is a betrayal of Tana French's entire ethos but I don't regret watching it.

[glintglimmergleam]

my other thought during ep 8 when it was clear the Rosalind investigation wasn't going according to the books is that when Rosalind says to Cassie:

"I'm not going to be convicted for this and you know why", I actually expected Rosalind to announce that she's pregnant. (Like Katniss Everdeen, trying to save herself from death.) And I thought she was going to out Cassie as pregnant too.

It makes more sense the way they went, but it would have been nice if the misogyny theme could have been brought home by aligning Rosalind and Cassie against the male officers of the station.

Show's not brave enough for that, though. Not if Cassie needed to be the hero

[glintglimmergleam]

ok but this part under a read more since it spoils both the book and show:

regarding What Really Happened To Peter and Jamie In 1985

it is STUPID AS HELL to make the answer magic/faeries. It is a CHEAT to make it an uncontrollable external natural force, which allows Rob to absolve himself of blame or guilt, even if he still feels like a reject.

The book has the guts to do two uncomfortable things:

1) imply, regularly, that Rob was partially responsible for their disappearance, through accident or manslaughter or silence under questioning.

2) NEVER ANSWER THE QUESTION.

Literally the first sentence of the book is Rob telling you he's a liar.

The show is too chickenshit not to give a tidy answer. My kingdom for a show that would have let him hang for it.

[glintglimmergleam]

what's funny is Dublin Murders was so clearly setting up Frank Mackey to be the lead in s2 (since he was next in line in the books) and that final moment when he passes the redheaded constable on the stairs is also obviously setting that guy up to be Mackey's foil a la Stephen Moran in the books

but then the show got cancelled so oooops no pay off

[glintglimmergleam]

Just finished Dublin Murders, nearly 10 months after I started watching it, 7 years after it aired.

I know @usuallyproperlyhydrated hated it but I actually think it was very good if you don't compare it to the books. The main issue is they decided to dispense with subtlety altogether, and simplify the murderers' motives. Part of the suspense of a Tana French novel is how the case breaks the detective protagonist. But the other part is the protagonist's unreliability as a narrator, especially in In The Woods.

The show wanted to say something simpler, with great casting. It mostly works, except when they beat you over the head with Themes.

[anywhoozles]

[coolthingoftheday]

Scottish artist Sir Andy Goldsworthy (Order of the British Empire) rearranged leaves around the base of a tree in order to make it appear to be glowing. 

[usuallyproperlyhydrated]

just confessed to my wife I got booed twice at book club a few weeks ago and I'm so worried she'll leave

[usuallyproperlyhydrated]

"the book club doesn't deserve you" @glintglimmergleam where would I be without you, my brave, noble justice-serving brienne of tarth who I would willingly ride into battle with any damn day of the week

[glintglimmergleam]

babe I would slay a thousand White Walkers for you with my bare hands, just name the time and place

[glintglimmergleam]

And now I'm having too many feelings about tznius culture. I hate that this stuff fucks you up forever. My life is good in so many ways but I'm gonna have trauma about modesty until I'm in the grave.

[glintglimmergleam]

The thing about reading novels about Orthodox Jews is that I spend half the book waiting for the author to make a mistake in the details of observant life and the other half reliving memories I don't need to experience again.

It's a lousy way to engage with a story. 2/10 would not recommend

[gliklofhameln]

Mysteries Created Upon the Division of the Upper and the Lower Waters

Nessim Bassan (b. 1950, Panama City, Panama)

2023, Acrylic, paper, and wood on canvas

112.4 × 104.5 × 8.3 cm

[harleyglenn]

I’m thinking of Beginning it all

[glintglimmergleam]

feeling sad about my body and about having a body. it'll pass, but.

[paranormal-taters]

MY DEAR TUMBLR USERS!!

WONDERFUL NEWS!!

NETHERFIELD PARK IS LET AT LAST!!!

[paranormal-taters]

[soychronicprocrastinator]

What a wonderful thing for our girls!!!

[lady-merian]

How so? How can it affect them? 🤨

[sunflowergardens-world]

My dear Merian! You must know I am thinking of his reblogging from one of them!

[green-great-dragon]

Is that his design in blogging here?

[estel-and-agape]

Design? nonsense, how can you write so! But it is very likely that he may reblog from one of them, and therefore you must follow him as soon as his blog is online.

[lady-merian]

I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may follow him, or they may follow him by themselves, which perhaps will be still better for them, for as you are as clever as any of them he might reblog most from you of the party.

[soychronicprocrastinator]

My dear, you flatter me. I certainly HAVE had my share of cleverness, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up mutuals, she ought to give over thinking of her own reblog counts.

[siena-sevenwits]

In such cases, a woman has not often much of a reblog count to think of.

[paranormal-taters]