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[thehauntingsource]

Hi, do you know off the top of your head whether we know what Nellie does (career-wise)? I've been trying to remember but can't figure out if we got any mention of it

I don’t think they ever said on the show.

- Madison

[bigmammallama5]

couragetofight replied to your post “hey google, is it illegal to remove signs encouraging people to vote...”

Most states have laws banning any political signage with-in a certain distance of the polling place (I worked as a clerk in 2016 and i believe its 100 feet away in Cali but that would depend on the state). If there is signage too close in the future, you should probably speak to the polling place clerk, they should remove it

im wonder if nc even has such a law. the place i went to today had signs up at the curb, MAYBE 20 feet away from the front door. i know that actual campaigners aren’t allowed within 50 feet of voting stations (re: Hillary was in Raleigh in ‘16 for early voting and people cried electioneering even though she was a couple hundred feet away). hey siri

[morningmightcomebyaccident]

Here i am again, to answer Emma. (2020) related questions! The score by Waller-Bridge was fantastic, and in fact I was quite surprised when searching for it to find out that she had done it, because it certainly did not feel experimental or contemporary. I don't know the particulars of regency era music, so perhaps a specialist would have gripes with it, but to an untrained ear it sounded extremely period appropriate. (Emma is out to rent early btw!! we rewatched it at home and its TOP NOTCH)

This makes sense to me! If you listen to the stuff Isobel Waller-Bridge has on soundcloud, it’s much more aligned with classical conventions. I think Vita & Virginia was actually a big departure for her, and it was done, of course, at the direction of the director, who wanted that EDM feel.

For the record, the Vita & Virginia score didn’t take me out of the movie, as I know it did for many critics, but I’m also not sure it brought me closer to the action of the film. But I think it’s a beautiful score in and of itself, especially “Stay the Night” and “Eclipse.”

But it’s also true I am 1000000000000% a ho for strings. So. Seduce me like that. Hit me with some longing strings and I’m putty in your hands.

… I might have to rent Emma… though there are other films I’ve been telling myself to get around to seeing too. (So many films… that I think about watching.. then I don’t watch… I’m like this, guys, I’m sorry.) Anyway, I learned about Isobel Waller-Bridge composing for Emma because I was listening–not really listening, I was jogging and it was actually not doing a good enough job distracting me from the fact I was jogging–to a podcast comparing the different Emma adaptations.

Thank you for the infos~~~

[morningmightcomebyaccident]

It seems that this weekend was the first to have Emma generally released, at least in my part of California! I thought that it was a rather good film, and an excellent adaptation of Austen. I've always held a bit of a grudge against Emma because I read it when I was 12 and didn't like how *manipulative* emma was, but i loved engaging with the story now. The actors were all great, the costuming and sets were amazing and they did NOT use vivaldi's summer, ha

Yeeeeeeeeees. Emma is a rich bitch, pretty sure the only Austenian heroine who actually has independent financial means and so her position re: marriage is so different, and everything actually is her plaything and her playground, which lends itself to the eye of Austenian social commentary, which critics seem to think this adaptation gets right, which is very intriguing to me…

Also, I think I’d enjoy a (British) comedy right about now…

(I think Persuasion is also one of those reads that hits really differently later in life. When I reread Persuasion a few years ago, I was like: Hot damn. I’m not sure I’ll ever feel that way about Mansfield Park. I think when I look at MP I Just want Fanny to be gay…. I mean, to be fair, I also want Elizabeth Bennet to be gay, but I accept that her liveliness and intelligence found appreciation in a man who listens to her. Honestly, part of the thrill of Gentleman Jack was getting close to a feeling of Jane Austen But Gay. Man… how do I get Céline Sciamma to do Jane Austen But Gay??? [Alas, I feel like she’s done with period pieces…])

[morningmightcomebyaccident]

i watched emma today and how surprised i was when there! was gemma whelan! who apparently exists to be in period pieces. She was very good in it of course. Have you seen emma yet? i found it a delightful time, but i'd love to know your feelings

Gemma Whelan!!! (Not to be confused with the other UK Gemma of my heart, Gemma Chan. Also, gotta be honest, when I started reading this, I expected you to say Lydia Leonard. XD) In Emma!! Any chance she was looking like this?

Or like this?

No? *sigh* Fine.

Is Emma out in wide release? The last time I checked for showtimes, it was only showing at the arthouse theater and while I’m okay with going to the arthouse theater for something like Portrait, I was like: If I can see Emma somewhere I won’t get gouged, I will do it…

You know, I wasn’t anticipating Emma, but I did see people saying good things and now I’m curious, because Emma is the book where you can do a lot of broad comedy in the way I don’t think you can do with the others by Austen. And I haven’t reread Emma, I’ve maybe read it two times max, so a movie will actually be really fresh to me. (Also I don’t think I’ve seen the Paltrow one? I know I’ve seen Clueless. Even if I only have vague memories of it.) So maybe I will go see it while it’s in the theaters! Instead of being my usual lazy self…

Has anyone else seen it? Anyone want to put in a good word? (Or a detracting one…?) Was there Vivaldi’s “Summer” in the film itself? XD

[morningmightcomebyaccident]

uGH on that release date! December 6th seemed like a reasonable date for a France -> US release but February... ouch!

I knooooooooooooooooow.

I’m bummed for everyone. People were genuinely looking forward to the Dec. 6 release date and so if you were counting down, it’s so so so so frustrating to have the date yanked from under your feet. :(

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[morningmightcomebyaccident]

can i ask what you mean by 'not believing in' death of the author (in regards to the tags about that twitter thread)? because i have Thoughts about death of the author and i'd be really interested in discussing them

I agree with Barthes that there’s no one definitive meaning/intention in anything and I’m not saying we cannot and should not liberate a text from its author to find (or even create) meaning or the meanings we need to see--this is like the lifeblood of (creative) fandoming--but I think it’s hard to propose that the summation of who an author is as a person doesn’t shape the text/work in ways that illuminate the intention behind the text and/or how the text plays to an audience and/or highlight the author’s blind spots/insights.

I mean, how could I “death of the author” Alice Wu in understanding “Saving Face”? Similarly, since I’ve been reading them, the first thing I look at when approaching a review of Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a byline: man or woman? In fact, tumblr is one of those spaces where enduring anonymity probably has some footing, but even then people who follow this blog are probably aware that I’m a woman, a lesbian, and (the longer you follow me) what my tastes in media are, so that if you hear my opinion or read something I write, you can calibrate your judgement according to what you know about me and my biases

For me, context (part of which is the knowledge of authorship) helps me make sense of whatever I’m reading/viewing. I like it.