Once + Future Lionheart

Isabelle. Theatre major. Lover of Shakespeare, King Arthur, Russian History, Eddie Redmayne, Quality Television, Lions, and Purple.

[lionheartedisabelle]

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

[lionheartedisabelle]

it has happened before

it can happen again

but can it happen now?

I'm fighting and struggling

and trying to catch

but never could learn how

and I'm grasping for straws

hoping and believing

but nothing's as it seems

slipping through my fingers

and never quite holding...

a once and future dream.

[lionheartedisabelle]

Isabelle Reads Stuff 2015

Here we go again...

Currently Reading

The Wars of The Roses by Alison Weir

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

[sirredmayne]

HAPPY 33RD BIRTHDAY EDDIE REDMAYNE! (January 6th, 1982)

As an actor, if you’re lucky enough to tell interesting stories about interesting people, then that’s a dream. But when they touch a nerve or connect people, that’s even better, so it does feel like an extraordinary thing. I’m just really happy right now.

[lionheartedisabelle]

Isabelle Reads Stuff.

[lionheartedisabelle]

Books Read in 2013

The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie (technically a re-read, but I wanted to refresh my memory before I read the next book on the list…)

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie

Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie

Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie

Tristan: With the Tristran of Thomas by Gottfried Von Strassburg

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Blue Meridian by Peter Matthiesson (SHARKS.)

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant (author of The Birth of Venus, which everyone should read)

And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno, Purgatorio, AND Paradiso baby.)

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant

Inferno by Dan Brown (Dante's was better, but still entertaining)

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (SO EXCELLENT)

Currently Reading

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff (I’m reading this one on the Kindle App on my phone, so it’s probably going to be on my Currently Reading List for a while… I JUST HAVE A HARD TIME READING THINGS ON KINDLE BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN REAL BOOKS OKAY)

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer 

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[havealemonade]

[just-me-and-the-tv]

[supernaturally-fangirling]

THIS IS SO MANY SHADES OF NOT OKAY

[sirredmayne]

[lionheartedisabelle]

How do you do your face?

[aryastraks]

Who do you think should have the power in the end? Who deserves it the most?

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Sophie Turner sits on the Iron Throne

[lionheartedisabelle]

Reasons Why Sansa Stark Should Be Queen in the North:

See Above.

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[lionheartedisabelle]

I get very bored and restless if I feel that there isn’t anything really in the character for me to get my teeth into. I lose interest very quickly. That’s why I don’t like taking roles that oversimplify or over-objectify or oversexualise women, because I find it so unbelievably boring just to stand there and look good. — Hayley Atwell (x)

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I think my decades will be my thirties and forties. I’m meant to be an older actor rather than a teen or a twenties starlet, I didn’t feel comfortable with the pursuit of that: I wanted to know who I was as a human being first. (x)

[davidoakes]

"I’ve kind of got a track record of playing quite nasty people. I’ve never sort of seen them as bad people. I’ve always seen them as people trying to reach objectives and sometimes having to do less than savoury acts in order to do it." - David Oakes

[lionheartedisabelle]

But seriously can we just talk about the fact that David Oakes is a casting magnet for crazy creepy men in period attire?

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“JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever”

Stephen King

#this was really sweet until i thought about the fact that if that were true she would have had to kill a person to create each one (via skyedestiny)

How else do you explain Dumbledore, Snape, Fred, Lupin, Tonks, Hedwig, and Dobby? (via vikingplumb)

[sseuregis]

we are the media elite

[lionheartedisabelle]

Isabelle Reads Stuff.

I'm improving my updating of this list! Whoo-hoo!!

Books Read in 2013

The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie (technically a re-read, but I wanted to refresh my memory before I read the next book on the list…)

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie

Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie

Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie

Tristan: With the Tristran of Thomas by Gottfried Von Strassburg

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Blue Meridian by Peter Matthiesson (SHARKS.)

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant (author of The Birth of Venus, which everyone should read)

And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno, Purgatorio, AND Paradiso baby.)

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Currently Reading

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff (I’m reading this one on the Kindle App on my phone, so it’s probably going to be on my Currently Reading List for a while…)

In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant (Love this author way too much)