Big Dreams & Fantastic Plots

🦇A walking encyclopedia of weirdness 💀 Friendly Neighborhood Atheist. Unitarian Universalist. Aspiring minister. Tattooed. Bookish. Spooky. Liberal af. 34. She/Her. John Light. Richard Armitage. Chris Evans.

[filmesbrazil]

[shakespearelove]

This face describes how I have felt most of this semester. One more to go!

[shakespearelove]

It’s been over a year since posting this, and I swear, I made this face at the office today, more than once, I should think.

[ennaih]

Father Brown | every Hercule Flambeau appearance | The Final Devotion (s09e05)

[shakespearelove]

Be still, my beating heart.

[tay-swifts]

CHRIS EVANS & ALBA BAPTISTA attend the Vanity Fair Oscar Party (2024)

[shakespearelove]

Holy moly, the little rub she gives his back? So cute. They're the cutest.

[richardarmitagefanpage]

Richard at Book Soup in Los Angeles, California. (October 23, 2023)

📷: HardlyanAngel

[shakespearelove]

Gutted to have missed this part, but made some lovely friends in line outside while this went on.

[ailuromantic-deactivated2022122]

nobody tears through library books quite as fast as a 12 yr old girl with no friends

[katiewont]

— littlemousling

yeah me too. their names were claudia and kristy and stacy and mary ann

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified Library Post

[richardarmitagefanpage]

Faber Books shared a video of Richard looking for his Geneva book in the Sainsbury's supermarket.

[adamdalgliesh]

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK ♥  Day 5. Favorite Dynamic |  Father Brown & Hercule Flambeau

You’ve exiled yourself to a life of purgatory. Surrounded by beautiful things. Because your soul is dark. You grew up without your father. You couldn’t help Rebecca. Is it because you couldn’t save them? You are a bereaved human being who now chooses to feel nothing. The choices are mine to make. There’s no going back.

[aqua-regia009]

Under Candlelight, watercolor. — John Butler Yeats (Irish, 1839-1922)

[commanderpeggymcgee]

“The treasure I came for is you.”

Father Brown: The Final Devotion

[shakespearelove]

🥵😩😭

[tvarchive]

MURDER IN PROVENCE (2022) Season 1, Episode 3

Nancy Carroll as Marine Bonnet and John Light as Marcell Vannier

[shakespearelove]

🥵

[batterknowsbetter]

[shakespearelove]

Jeeeesus

[alice-of-the-castle-deactivated]

I have never heard of Norman Rockwell. I don’t understand anything about art. But this picture shook me and caused a storm of emotions. It is called Breaking Home Ties, 1954

The boy is going to a Uni and wearing his best outfit; the Uni sticker is on his luggage, even his tie and his socks are the colours of the sticker. He is excited and impatient. The father - obviously a farmer, is sitting at the worn farm truck with a flag and a storm lamp, because their place is so small the train won’t normally stop there, so the father will need to “catch” the train and signal with the light and the flag for it to stop.

His son will never come back to the farm.  

I think I understand why this picture sold at 15,4 million dollars in 2006. 

[millie1098]

Great paintings by Norman Rockwell of everyday Americana.

[striving-artist]

Norman Rockwell specialized in exactly this, OP. You can look at almost all of his paintings and find a story in it. Some are sweet, some are poignant, some just show family. They are all stories, and they all have story woven into every single detail.

And because it is my favorite, this is “Shiner”

[lankyguy]

Rockwell’s mentor was A.C. Leyendecker best known for his illustrations of the Arrow Collar shirt man. The model was Leyendecker’s lover. Rockwell was a pallbearer at Leyendecker’s funeral.

[vaspider]

Rockwell’s paintings also dealt quite a bit with social issues as he got older and after the Saturday Evening Post made him remove a Black person from an image bc Black people “could only depicted in service jobs”.

As a result he left the Post & created (among other works) The Problem We All Live With and Murder in Mississippi.

[angel-ponders]

It shouldn’t be surprising that writers have some of the best strike signs in existence

[babbhad]

Just so we're all on the same page with the writer's strike.

If during the strike, it's announced about AI generated shows. We are not watching them. Not even out of curiosity. Let them fail every AI generated show they try make.

The human voice can not be replaced by AI. Don't let them try.

[uchidachi]

My annotated Dracula has informed me that when Harker said his robber steak was “in the style of the London cat’s-meat!” he was referring to “A tradition in London was the “cat’s-meat man,” a vendor who sold little bits of meat on skewers for consumption by cats”

I am overjoyed by this knowledge that there were Victorians just randomly getting lil kebabs for their CATS

[comicsandslushies]

I am so happy to learn this was a thing, looks like they were door to door pet food sellers.

[dathen]

I didn’t see any new posts about it but it is VITAL that new readers know this.

[ayellowbirds]

oh, now I know what my job would have been back then.

[looney-mooney]

Actors and Animators should go on strike next tbh. Especially cgi animators. Put the fear back into Hollywood

[shakespearelove]

I support this wholeheartedly.

[mixtapetraxx]

Bond girls are out. Blanc girls (underprivileged women who screw over rich assholes with the help of this silly detective) are in.