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Water painted by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900)

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Rise and collapse of a wave. Details of paintings by Michael Zeno Diemer (1867-1939)

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Island in the fog

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And let us be friends for all our lives.

If this isn't one of the most beautiful sentences in literature ever.

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She showed me in the doctor's letter that all I wrote down was true. It seems to have made a new man of me. It was the doubt as to the reality of the whole thing that knocked me over. 

There's nothing like the feeling of relief when you find out you are not crazy and you have not been imagining things.

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Villainous. Infamous. Anne Bonny!

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It showed a young woman of twenty-five or twenty-six, dark in colouring, her burning eyes veiled beneath languorous lids. She was wearing the picturesque costume of a Catalan fisherwoman, with a red-and-black bodice and her hair held back with gold pins. She was looking at the sea, so that her elegant figure was outlined against the two blues, of the sky and the waves.

Oh man. I didn't notice this detail the first time through. This portrait, that Mercedes had commissioned while Fernand was away, depicts her in her old status of Catalan fisherwoman. Of course, it's idealized somewhat, made into just a costume - she certainly didn't seem to have the funds for gold hairpins back in the day - but she deliberately depicted herself in the life that they've left so far behind by now. And what's more, she's looking out to the sea... perhaps towards the island where Edmond was imprisoned.

This completely explains why she had it done without him around to say no, why she can't look at it without weeping. Why Fernand hates it so much. Why Edmond is frozen staring at it for so long.

Albert's oblivious comment that the painting is the only conflict he's seen between his parents takes on a completely new light as the only time Mercedes expresses her own regrets and former love openly, even if in a fashion that still wouldn't be understood except by those already in the know.

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Le comte de Monte Cristo / The count of Monte Cristo (2024) - Secondary characters

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So umm, not sure if I get to see The Bagman. It seems to be some sort of limited release... none of the cinemas list it, so far...

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Me to the DJATS production team.

(Pinterest)

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Billy and Julia Dunne (Pinterest)

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tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

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Sam as Patrick McKee in Bagman 2024.

Pic found at my "Pinterest pin mail recomendations" (boy do they know me XD) :

Thanks Pinterest !!!!!!

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I feel like I should do more blogging about Sam Claflin, something, you know, more constructive, but the problem with me is that I can be talking about something for months, or even years, before I finally do it, and I have to be in the right mindset. That romantic heroes post I did had lived in my head for at least half a year before I actually wrote it. (I might do more on that, actually, and I will include Finnick.) Also I promised @jesstasticvoyage a while ago that I would talk about Sam playing characters with a dark(er) side, but I haven't even started taking notes. (I need to do some rewatching first as well.) Pitiful, what can I say. Lately I've also been thinking about Sam as a brother, he's had onscreen siblings on a few occasions now, so that's something to look at too. There's just so many interesting topics to delve into, especially as when it comes to Sam, everyone focuses so much on romance and shipping. He can do more than look at his co-stars!

If I don't manage to fulfil any of the above, I might just start posting pics of Sam with inanimate objects, pointing out the kemmystri he has with these objects. Like that sugarcube, for example. Come on, did he not have kemmystri with it? Why else is it still such a beloved image?

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I love the casual namedropping of Ellen Terry there as being super hot

I particularly appreciate that Bram Stoker's reference for someone 'winningly attractive' was a 50-year-old woman and not some 20-something starlet.

I mean, she was super hot. These are 1890s photos. But it's still refreshing that he thought of a woman who was his age.