#i̶̞̜̬̮͑͐͊̉̈ņ̸̨̗̻͚̗̣̣̲͒̊͝t̵̡̬̱̳̊͛͐ȩ̷̢̠̣̰̟̜̜͓̇͒̽̓́̐͝r̷̥̠͖̱̐̑̒̿̈̎̓͑̋ : delphine la belle .

[hclymage]

ḉ̸̙̺͙̟̮̩͎̦̊͆͋̈͆̈́͜ļ̶̡̛̜͓̺̝̭͓͈̓ͅŏ̶̡̭̼̞̘͍͇̪̥̜̉̌͋̓́s̸̡̠̯̰̞͈̣̥͎̒ę̵̡̫̜͙͈̮̲̮͉̿̏̀d̵̡͊̔͋͒͌͐̾͐̎͠ ̷̣͔̲̱̠̦͕́̂̀͌̎̂͘͠͝ͅs̸̨̧̭̘͈̍̓͗͊̎͠t̶̤̼̫̣̰̘͔̜̊̔a̶̰̗̤̠͈͗̑̐̂̂̋̂̋r̸͕̮̪̮̖̱̉̋̈́͑͒͑́͗̐͝t̴͙͖͌͌̔͌̓̔̊̉͘͘ę̷̛̣͉̜̝̩̠r̶̛̳̥̼̄͗̄͂́͑̌͛͝  with @delphinebelle​

×××× tudo naquela ideia gritava ‘saiam da frente, estão os dois bêbados’. e, se fosse qualquer outra pessoa, até mesmo corentin pensaria aquilo. mas, tratando-se de si e de delphine, eles tinham outros motivos -bem mais deprimentes- para estarem fazendo aquilo. a ideia fora do príncipe de camelot. o ritual do qual participara com delphine fora demais para ele, a ponto de ter precisado sugar completamente a vida de uma pequena árvore para completar a magia. o peso de ter roubado uma vida para suprir sua magia fora demais para ele, sempre era. então não deveria ser surpresa quando procurou a princesa com a ideia de banharem-se em água benta.

“não foi fácil conseguir esse tanto de água benta no instituto, mas... voilá!” sorriu para ela, apontando para a banheira que ele tinha acabado de encher. “vamos no sentir melhor depois disso...” ao menos, era isso que ele esperava. queria se livrar daquele peso no peito, então até podia concordar que era uma ideia um pouco extrema, mas não hesitaria em momento algum, com fé de que faria sua alma mais leve.

[elsullsquemiren]

La belle saison (2015) dir. Catherine Corsini

[loveshaydixon]

-La Belle Saison.

[mistooke]

"la nostra vita è immobile e la Terra continua a girare" 🌻

[floatingbook]

Exploration list #64

Some things to read, watch or listen to, and then ponder.

Some books to read on separatism, courtesy of a lesbrarian [book recs].

Reclaiming critical analysis: The social harms of “bitch” (x) [article].

An enthusiastic entreaty to watch La Belle Saison [film rec].

Un extrait d’une interview de 1972 de Delphine Seyrig [video].

“separatism is the praxis” [essay].

Some things might never change [essay].

[ninarrivas-a]

“have you ever thought about how much worse our lives would be without each other?” + belle&cora

O banheiro do térreo dos Stuyvesant era espaçoso e branco, quase sem vida, e se Isabelle não tivesse tantas memórias com Corinne e Quentin nele, de joelhos ralados e com medo de levar alguma bronca de Martina, detestaria o design do cômodo. 

Era o aniversário surpresa da melhor amiga — não aquele feito pelos Montpensier, mas, sim, com a presença daqueles que realmente se importam com ela — e Delphine fez o favor de não comparecer; ela nunca o fazia, de qualquer forma. A primeira coisa que Isabelle fez ao ver que Cora estava prestes a ceder, sóbria, foi puxá-la para o local que, quando infantes, denominavam de esconderijo secreto. Permitiu que a outra chorasse e esperou, limpando seu rosto com um pano quando concluísse, num ciclo que nunca acabava quando se tratava das matriarcas em questão. “Of course I do. I'm glad we don't have to live in such a nightmare.” O tom de voz era um misto de jocoso e afetuoso, porém com uma sinceridade ímpar. Pensava, sim, com frequência sobre como sua vida era tão melhor com ela e tão mais fácil; sabia que qualquer outra amizade não a entenderia tão bem.

“Eu sei que você está brava com Delphine and rightfully so, mas não posso deixar que estrague sua própria diversão por ela.” Murmurou, depois de alguns segundos em silêncio. Tough love sempre havia sido o forte da Godard, mas talvez ela precisasse se esforçar ali, agora, para que aquela data não se tornasse amarga. Mais do que já era, afinal. “Corail, é seu último aniversário no ensino médio e todos os seus amigos estão aqui.” Começou, dando de ombros. Corail — coral, em francês — era um dos inúmeros apelidos adotados por Belle e esse, em particular, ela gostava bastante. Não dizia tanto assim, mas achava que a outra loira conseguia se destacar no meio de qualquer beleza, assim como um coral  “Aliás, acho que aquele Borgia trouxe um presente numa Cartier e admito que estou com inveja... quem diria que druggies sabem escolher presentes?” Tentou brincar, embora a surpresa com o supracitado tivesse um grande fundo de verdade, pegando uma caixa de maquiagem e entregando à outra, num cuidado silencioso. Ela sabia que Corinne era vaidosa o suficiente para não sair dali de maquiagem borrada, mesmo que achasse que ela ficava bonita de qualquer jeito.

“You don’t have to worry about it, though.” Comentou, depois de alguns minutos em silêncio. Corinne a fitou, no meio do processo do delineado, ligeiramente confusa. “About not having me in your life. We were born to be each other’s sisters and there’s no one I’d rather spend most of my lifetime with.” Brincou, referindo-se ao tempo que se conheciam — definitivamente era a amizade mais duradoura uma da outra. “E Delphine nos fez um favor de não comparecer, só ficaria torcendo o nariz para tudo e sentindo-se superior por ter feito alguns filmes de sucesso. Besides, you know Martina loves you more than she’ll ever love me, you don’t need that bitch. And we’ll always have each other.” Sorriu, depositando um beijo nos cabelos loiros de Cora, e arrependendo-se logo em seguida por ter grudado neles com seu gloss. “Agora, vamos aproveitar muito. But not too much, I don’t want to go to that clinic again.”

[golffitz-blog]

English Translation:

CINEMA

FILMS

5 films that promote the lesbian cause

Screenshot from Todd Haynes' movie "Carol", 2015.

Each year many films are released in cinemas or on streaming platforms. Among them, very few focus on the LGBT community and more particularly lesbians, even if their representation tends to develop. Let's take a look back at 5 striking and important films on Sapphic relationships.

1- “Carol” by Todd Haynes, 2015

1950s, New York. Thérèse, a young employee of a department store meets Carol, a charismatic woman, married and mother of a little girl. Unfortunately, this one finds herself locked in her marriage and this meeting will change everything for the two women. As soon as they meet, an attraction is born and turns into a forbidden love. Since the conventions of the time were conservative and homosexuality rejected, they had no choice but to go into hiding.

“Carol” was adapted from Patricia Highsmith's book of the same name. It is a strong and poignant story that cannot be left unscathed. In addition, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara's acting is striking. It is anchored today as a classic among LGBT films.

2- “Portrait of the young girl on fire” by Céline Sciamma, 2019

1770, France. Marianne, a young painter, is to paint the wedding portrait of Heloise. The young woman has just left the convent and must marry a Milanese nobleman. In resistance to this marriage, Héloïse refuses to pose. Introduced as her new lady-in-waiting, Marianne looks at her, analyzes her and memorizes her features in order to paint her in secret. Only, she cannot continue to lie to Heloise any longer as their bond strengthens and love is born between them.

The film received the Screenplay Award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and received critical acclaim. The beauty of the scenes gives the impression of being in a painting for the duration of the film. Poetic and artistic, “Portrait of the Girl on Fire” is a true masterpiece.

3- “Ammonite” by Francis Lee, 2020

1840, England. Mary Anning was a renowned paleontologist but now lives with her mother in a remote location on the rugged south coast of England. She continues to glean ammonites which she then sells to wealthy visitors. One day, she meets Roderick Murchison, a wealthy tourist who asks her to take care of his convalescent wife Charlotte during her business trip. Reluctant at first to meet up with this one, she ends up accepting and begins a passionate affair between the two women.

“Ammonite” defies social barriers and signs a story unlike anything we've seen before. With Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan and Fiona Show, the cast turns out to be very astonishing. The film is all tenderness and delicacy.

4- “La Belle saison” by Catherine Corsini, 2015

1971, Paris. Delphine, a farmer's daughter who has always lived in the countryside, decides to leave for Paris in order to emancipate herself and be financially independent. Carole is in a relationship with Manuel and is a Spanish teacher. Very committed to the beginning of feminism, she is part of the Women's Liberation Movement (MLF) in which Delphine will take part. From there, their relationship will evolve and the two of them will have a great love story until one day reality catches up with them.

The historical background of the 1970s with the empowerment of women who are beginning to make their voices heard and to fight for their rights is an asset in this film. In addition to following two women who discover and tame each other, we find ourselves confronted with the harsh reality of Sapphic relationships: the fear of the gaze of the other.

5- “A secret love” by Chris Bola, 2020

Documentary available on Netflix, "A Secret Love" tells the story of Terry and Pat, two octogenarians whose love has been kept secret for a long time. Met in 1947, they spent more than 70 years of their life together. Both have known the repression of lesbianism, in a context like that, they did not accept this term qualifying them. They lived together but called each other "cousins" or "friends" when they had to talk about each other to someone outside. It wasn't until the end of their lives that they celebrated their love by getting married a few months before Terry died.

Homosexuality in old age is rarely shown. This documentary highlights the type of discrimination that older lesbian women can experience, such as a retirement home that accepts their marriage. The generation that this film shows us is the one that was keen to protect itself, to remain hidden even if that meant silencing part of its identity. Their story is truly touching and endearing.

About Marie Party

[jeanchrisosme]

Il y a aussi des hommes merveilleux qui arrivent dans notre vie qui te tiennent la main et te disent allez je veux marcher avec toi. Béni l'homme qui arrive sans mauvaises intentions et honnêtement dans la vie d'une femme... Celui qui lui donne la sécurité et la fait se sentir belle, sexy, intelligente, qui la rend complice de folies, mais surtout la fait se sentir aimée, respectée et désirée... Béni cet homme qui lui donne plus d'affection que de problèmes, celui qui gagne sa confiance et est capable de l'aider à rétablir ses blessures... Celui qui n'arrive pas avec des mensonges ni des trahisons, celui qui sait encore être un gentleman et il est clair que le romantisme ne passe pas mode... Celui qui ne fait pas pleurer et aide à nettoyer ses larmes, celui qui sait que sa relation est une priorité et la protège comme un trésor... Cet homme mature qui n'a pas besoin de conquérir des centaines de femmes pour déguiser sa faible estime de soi, parce qu'il sait qu'un véritable homme est capable de transformer sa partenaire en femme, en son amie et en son amante... Celui qui peut être aussi dur que tendre, aussi passionné que ringard, aussi fou que sain d'esprit... Béni soit cet homme et bénie la femme qui le valorise et l'accompagne de la même manière, parce qu'ils sauront qu'ils ont trouvé leur âme.

Delphine dan Vanghan

[perfectdisastcr]

💗 i would like a list of all 3 million potential pairings please 🙈

my god, i would love to take the time out of my day to give that to you, and just know that we can ship literally anybody and everybody because that’s all we ever do in the first place and you know how much i love doing that with you too. my favorite writing partner everybody, bre is hands down the best partner in the whole world, and i’m lucky enough to be able to have her at all. she’s mine and i’m never going to let her go because i love her so much! she’s literally the best thing to ever happen to me and i know i wouldn’t be here through the shitty times and all without her! everybody better go follow her right now and send her all the love i swear to god, because she’s the only person on this hell site that shows me the attention that i deserve! also that list of potential pairings is below the cut, and don’t say i didn’t warn you. 👀

send 💗 if you’re open to the possibility of a romantic ship eventually happening between our muses

all these characters are up for shipping with all your characters:

alex gardiner (paul rudd) alexander hamilton (lin-manuel miranda) alex mullner (brant daughterty) alice liddell (madelyn cline) alisha khara (jameela jamil) annie abel (luna blaise/anya chalotra) antonia moreno (victoria justice) apollonia levine (anastasia karanikolaou) arthur pendragon (niall horan) ashley spinelli (ursula corbero) aspen rhodes (sofia black-d'elia) astrid porter (karlie kloss) audrey ramirez (selena gomez) august khalil (rami malek) axel turner (charlie weber/skeet ulrich) aziz hassan (riz ahmed) bailee rose (jenny boyd) bambi prince (lachlan watson) barbie roberts (kate upton) barley lightfoot (michael clifford) beatriz velasco (camila cabello/diane guerrero)  beau hester (froy gutierrez) beck collins (joe keery) bellatrix lestrange (carmela zumbado) belle dubois (margaret qualley) belle summers (candice king) berliouz bonfamille (alex fitzalan) bernard davenport (gavin leatherwood) billie groves (kiana lede/emmy raver-lampman) billy hargrove (dacre montgomery) bindi culver (meg donnelly/rachel mcadams) bo-peep ‘bo’ patterson (amanda seyfried) brady gardiner (nathaniel buzolic) brielle stewart (alexandra daddario) bronwyn pierson (madelaine petsch) buzz lightyear (paul mescal/chris pine) calliope jung (phillipa soo) camille aguilar (jeanine mason) carl fredricksen (tye sheridan) celeste quintana (rosalia/maite perroni) chandler armstrong (iwan rheon) cinderella tremaine (lily james) clementine ahn (jamie chung) cliff egan (stephen amell) colleen lowell (jodie comer) connor catrell (thomas doherty) copper slade (nick jonas) cordelia goodwin (ryan destiny/candice patton) coriander thompson (dacre montgomery/chris evans) cornelius robinson (simon baker) cruella de vil (melanie martinez) cyrus quinney (owen joyner) daisy vaughn (isabella gomez/aimee carrero) dakota atkins (amber midthunder) dale monks (keiynan lonsdale) dalton davis (harris dickinson) daniela ‘dani’ costello (becky g/eva longoria) dash parr (jaden smith) delilah diaz (camila cabello/diane guerrero) delphine washington (antonia thomas) delta montgomery (manu gavassi) denver koch (thomas elms) devon montgomery (iain de caestecker) diego hargreeves (david castaneda) dorcas meadowes (ariela barer) dory blau (julia louise-dreyfus) duke blaise (ashley graham & matthew daddario — reincarnated)  duncan traeger (zac efron) edmund whittaker (richard madden) edwin orwell (nicholas galitzine) elena flores (jenna ortega) eleonora moretti (benedetta gargari) eleven (millie bobby brown) elio montgomery (noah schnapp/brendon urie) elisabeth ‘elsa’ andersson (candice king) elliott murdoch (kj apa) eloise thompson (taylor hill/zoey deutch) elwood leith (sam claflin) emerson wheaton (beau mirchoff) emily sondheim (eve fraser) emmy silverstein (nat wolff/michiel huisman) ericka ‘ricki’ santos (danna paola) esmeralda guybertaut (priyanka chopra) everest sorenson (adam driver) ezekiel ‘zeke’ bauer (neels visser) fa mulan (awkwafina) felix dawson (lukas gage) ferris rockwell (joshua bassett) five hargreeves (aidan gallagher/rob raco/john mulaney) florence prata (barbie ferreira) flynn rider (jacob elordi/steven r mcqueen) frank castle (jon bernthal) gabrielle dupres (louriza tronco) genevieve rizzo (troian bellisario) gill moorish (harrison ford) godwin vivar (diego boneta) grainger anslow (justin hartley) grant wesley (keanu reeves) griffin price (liam hemsworth) guinevere ‘gwen’ flores (ester exposito/ana de armas) gulliver kennedy (robert sheehan) gunner mccoy (miles heizer) halston krogen (nick robinson) hamish duke (thomas elms) harper graves (sydney sweeney) harry potter (alberto rosende) harvey wolff (joaquin phoenix) hawke bradbury (brenton thwaites) helen parr (megan thee stallion/kerry washington) hendrix palmer (mark fischbach) henley howell (dylan everett/paul wesley) henrik nilsen (herman tommeraas/chris evans) hercules sabri (aubrey joseph) hermione granger (quintessa swindell) holden krogen (jack falahee) holly la stella (olivia holt) honey lemon (irene ferreiro) hudson reid (jaeden lieberher/paul mescal/james mcavoy) irving reid (matty healy) isobel evans (lily cowles) jacoba ‘cobi’ abernathy (geraldine viswanathan) jake bennett (joe jonas) jake breckenridge (landon liboiron) james potter (noah centineo) james ‘sully’ sullivan (hozier) jane porter (zoe sugg) jasmine agrabah (naomi scott) jessica jones (krysten ritter) jim hopper (david harbour) johanna ‘jo’ gardiner (carlson young) josefine olive (lili reinhart/maika monroe) joseph ‘joey’ carnegie (chris o'dowd) juliette russo (camila mendes) juno nicks (gideon adlon/linda cardellini) justin miller (michael b. jordan) keaton green (charlie plummer/austin butler/alexander skarsgard) keifer fry (nathan parsons) kennedy sutherland (florence pugh) khalid farid (mena massoud) kiernan jost (jack barakat) kiki penn (natalie alyn lind)  kim possible (karen gillan) kit dempsey (aaron taylor-johnson/michael sheen) kristoff bjorgman (ben hardy) kuzco inca (tommy martinez) lady alvarez (camila cabello/diane guerrero) lake montgomery (jace norman/casey deidrick/jeff goldblum) lazarus (sean teale/tom ellis) lennox wells (billie piper) leonardo ‘leo’ light (armie hammer) levi wesley (gerard butler) liam wheaton (lucas lynngaard tonnesen/dominic sherwood) lilac montgomery (sophia lillis/deborah ann woll) lila pitts (ritu arya) lilo pelekai (courtney eaton) lola carver (carla gugino) macy merritt (kylie jenner) madeline hawkins (rowan blanchard/kaylee bryant) madison bloomfield (gwyneth paltrow) maggie wheaton (virginia gardner) maria deluca (heather hemmens) mariana de la cruz (victoria justice/salma hayek) marianne darden (elizabeth olsen) marisol torres (alexa demie/salma hayek) marlene phan (brianne tju) matilda franks (brooke markham) matthew murdock (charlie cox) max tian (chloe bennet) mckenzie whitman (danielle rose russell) megara creon (ashley moore) melanie carter (brenna d'amico/zooey deschanel) melody burns-newman (camren bicondova) mercutio bellini (giancarlo commare) merida dunbroch (bree kish) michael ‘goob’ yagoobian (dylan o’brien/andrew scott) mickey hader (shawn mendes) miguel rivera (diego tinoco) mike wheeler (finn wolfhard) mildred ‘millie’ brantwood (stella maeve) milo martinez (itzan escamilla/tyler posey) milo thatch (jason ralph) minerva ‘minnie’ winslett (jenna coleman) mischa locklear (jenny slate) moana motunui (auli'i cravalho) molly wheaton (saoirse monica jackson/kristen bell/kristin chenoweth) monet bugg (annie murphy) mordecai ‘cai’ baird (joseph morgan) murray bauman (brett gelman) nadja (natasia demetriou) naomi phillips (hunter king) natalie fuller (krysten ritter) nate gardiner (tom holland/thomas hayes/joe keery/adam scott) nemo fisher (nick robinson) nick novak (jon bernthal) nick wilde (jake johnson) nina baxter (laura harrier) nolan van ness (louis hynes/benjamin wadsworth) nymphadora tonks (kennedy walsh) odessa barnes (inanna sarkis) osbourne russo (oliver jackson-cohen) otis richardson (finn jones) owen monroe (zachary levi) paloma katz (brittany o'grady) paxton gardiner (douglas booth) pearl turner (maia mitchell/aubrey plaza) penny proud (sarah jeffery) perdita ryan (alisha boe/zoe kravitz) perrie wheaton (ariela barer/jessica alba) peter pan (rudy pankow) peter pettigrew (alex lawther) phil mcdermot (leo howard/dylan o’brien) phineas flynn-fletcher (michael provost) piper donahue (millie bobby brown/katherine langford/felicity jones) pippa mei (amy okuda) pollux isola (camila mendes) portia sadler (hayden panettiere) prairie gallagher (lucy boynton) quaid ‘q’ wright (jake gylenhaal) quinton saunders (jamie dornan) rain montgomery (nick jonas) ramona montgomery-wallis (lana condor/ashley park) reed knightley (arthur darvill) reign fentworth (madison bailey/vanessa morgan) reno thames (joshua bassett) richie tozier (finn wolfhard/bill hader) river montgomery (jack griffo/tyler blackburn) robin buckley (maya hawke) roger holtz (ben platt) roger radcliffe (aaron tveit) romy reyes (carmela zumbado) ronald ‘mac’ mcdonald (rob mcelhenney) roosevelt banks (spence moore II) rowan burke (andy biersack) roxanne sutton (lady gaga) rush mccoy (cody fern) russell montgomery (ian harding/hugh jackman) russell montgomery II (jack dylan grazer/timothee chalamet/adam brody) sable rosales (catherine bascoy) saint fentworth (reece king) sally finklestein (marina ruy barbosa) salvador ‘sal’ mendoza (jorge blanco) samson gardiner (cole sprouse) sandy diamandis (christina hendricks) sawyer bell (penn badgley) seamus kennedy (aria shanghasemi/michael sheen) seb seif (zeeko zaki) selena hada (camila cabello/diane guerrero) severus snape (rob raco) shawn taggart (ben barnes) shay strauss (chris wood) shia zoheir (rami malek) shiloh young (devery jacobs) shiri madani (inbar lavi) simba king (john boyega) sloane shapiro (diana silvers/linda cardellini) sofia ramirez (camila cabello/camila mendes/morena baccarin/fluvia lacerda) stefani vidal (louriza tronco) stella romero (adria arjona) steve harrington (joe keery) stevie wagner (anne hathaway/jennifer garner) sutton reiser (katherine langford/kat dennings) tandy hawthorne (giorgia whigham) tanner cohen (ross lynch) tarrant ‘mad hatter’ hightopp (hale appleman) tarryn fischer (giorgia whigham/perry mattfeld) tatum barton (ben schwartz) teddy flood (james marsden) tex navarro (bad bunny) thad abraham (dylan sprouse/chris evans) the handler (kate walsh) thomas gardiner (felix mallard/paul rudd) tierney kennedy (maisie williams) timothy ‘tigger’ trigger (jeremy allen white) tinker bell (sabrina carpenter) tj lieberman (armie hammer) tommy burns (will poulter) topher larkin (alexander hogh andersen) trey turner (jonathan daviss) ursula celia (normani/lizzo) vaughn abel (max greenfield) veronica lodge (camila mendes) vidia viento (emma dumont) vivica lang (madison pettis/tessa thompson) wanda cowell (brenda song) warren wentz (robert pattinson) wendell langston (link neal) wilbur robinson (david mazouz) winnie knox (sophie turner/jessica chastain) wren green (alexander calvert) wynona winstead (sarah hyland/cristin milioti) xander talbot (g-eazy) york pemberton (heather baron-gracie) yusef barlas (zayn malik) zack abrams (alex fitzalan) ziggy (taron egerton) zoey matthews (olivia munn)

[stainedglassgardens]

Favourite films watched in 2020

In no particular order:

Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland, 2009) The Gleaners and I (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, Agnès Varda, 2000) Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit, Werner Herzog, 1971) Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012) The Return (Возвращение, Andrey Zvyaginstev, 2003) The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack, 2018) Transnistra (Anna Eborn, 2019) Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparues, Denis Côté, 2019) The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo, 1936) Viy (Вий, Georgiy Kropachyov & Konstantin Ershov, 1967)

Complete list of all 323 films watched in 2020 under the cut!

January

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Gurinder Chadha, 2008) Blade (Steven Norrington, 1998) Who Among Us! (Abhishek Prasad and Rebecca Kahn, 2019) Brotherhood (Meryam Joobeur, 2018) Disctrict 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009) Hair Love (Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver, 2019) Kitbull (Rosana Sullivan, 2019) Sister (妹妹, Siqi Song, 2019) Nuts! (Penny Lane, 2016) The Judge (Erika Cohn, 2017) The Ghosts of Sugar Land (Bassam Tariq, 2019) Amazonia (Dominic Hicks, 2018) Dearborn Ash (Hena Ashraf, 2018) Pineal (Jenny Rinta-Kanto, 2019) Headcleaner (Nick Scott, 2019) Rattlesnake (Zak Hilditch, 2019) The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016) Skin (Audrey Rosenberg, 2018) The Banishment (Изгнание, Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2007) F is for Friendship (Shaya Mulcahy, 2016) Paradise Hills (Alice Waddington, 2019) Road House (Rowdy Herrington, 1989) Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria, 2019) I Believe in Unicorns (Leah Meyerhoff, 2014) Ghost Train (Lee Cronin, 2014) Troop Zero (Bert & Bertie, 2019) For the Love of God (Pour l'Amour de Dieu, Micheline Lanctôt, 2011)

February

Sitting Next to Zoe (Ivana Lalović, 2013) Dark Places (Gilles Paquet-Brenner, 2015) Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016) The Limey (Steven Soderbergh, 1999) Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh, 2013) Good Sam (Kate Melville, 2019) Anima (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2019) What Did Jack Do? (David Lynch, 2017) Fleur de tonnerre (Stéphanie Pillonca, 2016) Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019) The Field Guide to Evil (Peter Strickland, Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala, Katrin Gebbe, Yannis Veslemes, Ashim Ahluwalia, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Can Evrenol, Calvin Reeder, 2018) Devil (John Eric Dowdle, 2010) 37 Seconds (Hikari, 2019) The Falling (Carol Morley, 2014) Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka, Isao Takahata, 1988) Elena (Елена, Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2011) The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019) Baskin (Can Evrenol, 2015) In Fabric (Peter Strickland, 2018) Leviathan (Левиафан, Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014) Suffragette (Sarah Gavron, 2015)

March

The East (Zal Batmanglij, 2013) Solaris (Солярис, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd, 2008) There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007) Io (Jonathan Helpert, 2019) The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (David France, 2017) A Bump Along the Way (Shelly Love, 2019) Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley, 2019) Divines (Houda Benyamina, 2016) Vanishing Waves (Kristina Buožytė, 2012) Mirror (Зеркало, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017) Swallow (Carlo Mirabella-Davis, 2019) Joy (Sudabeh Mortezai, 2018) Good Time (Josh and Benny Safdie, 2017) Quarantine (John Eric Dowdle, 2008) The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley, 1990) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh, 2017) Leto (Лето,  Kirill Serebrennikov, 2018) The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)

April

Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry, 2015) Black Christmas (Sophia Takal, 2019) Dogs of Chernobyl (Léa Camilleri & Hugo Chesnel, 2020) Firecrackers (Jasmin Mozaffari, 2018) Les Misérables (Ladj Ly, 2019) The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981) The Daughters of Fire (Las hijas del fuego, Albertina Carri, 2018) The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948) The Wailing (곡성, Gokseong, Na Hong-jin, 2016) Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014) Sorrowful Shadow (Guy Maddin, 2004) Mistery Lonely (Harmony Korine, 2007) The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack, 2018) Zombieland: Double Tap (Ruben Fleischer, 2019) Waves '98 (Ely Dagher, 2015) Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie, 2019) The Last Séance (Laura Kulik, 2018) Too Late to Die Young (Tarde para morir joven, Dominga Sotomayor Castillo, 2018) Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015) Queen & Slim (Melina Matsoukas, 2019) The Holy Mountain (La montaña sagrada, Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973) The Chaser ( 추격자, Chugyeokja, Na Hong-jin, 2008) Made in Dagenham (Nigel Cole, 2010) The Color of Pomegranates (Նռան գույնը, Nřan guynə, Sergei Parajanov, 1969) Lost Girls (Liz Garbus, 2020) Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparues, Denis Côté, 2019) And Then There Were None (René Clair, 1945) Doctor Sleep (Mike Flanagan, 2019) Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) Circus of Books (Rachel Mason, 2019) Catfish (Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, 2010) Wildling (Fritz Böhm, 2018) Delphine (Chloé Robichaud, 2019) The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestone, 1946) The Red Balloon (Le Ballon rouge, Albert Lamorisse, 1956) Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them (Nona. Si me mojan, yo los quemo, Camila José Donoso, 2019) The Lodge (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala, 2019) Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell, 2020) Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)

May

A Russian Youth (Мальчик русский, Alexander Zolotukhin, 2019) Sicario (Denis Villeneuve, 2015) Fedora (Billy Wilder, 1978) LoveTrue (Alma Har'el, 2016) The Platform (Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, 2019) Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres, Céline Sciamma, 2007) The Assistant (Kitty Green, 2019) The Half of It (Alice Wu, 2020) Tomboy (Céline Sciamma, 2011) The Last Man on Earth (Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, 1964) Beanpole (Дылда, Kantemir Balagov, 2019) Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014) The Fall (Jonathan Glazer, 2020) Girlhood (Bande de filles, Céline Sciamma, 2014) Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962) Marguerite & Julien (Valérie Donzelli, 2015) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, Céline Sciamma, 2019) This Magnificent Cake! (Ce Magnifique Gâteau!, Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels, 2018) Romantic Comedy (Elizabeth Sankey, 2019) Transnistra (Anna Eborn, 2019) Eraserhhead (David Lynch, 1977) The Farewell (Lulu Wang, 2019) Emma. (Autumn de Wilde, 2020) Late Night (Nisha Ganatra, 2019) Charlie's Angels (Elizabeth Banks, 2019) Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Cathy Yan, 2020) The Ancestors Came (Cecile Emeke, 2017) Suicide by Sunlight (Nikyatu Jusu, 2019) Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, 2018) A Perfect 14 (Giovanna Morales Vargas, 2018) Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (Lorna Tucker, 2018) Free Radicals (Len Lye, 1958) Aniara (Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, 2018) Vivarium (Lorcan Finnegan, 2019) La Pointe-Courte (Agnès Varda, 1955) Diary of a Pregnant Woman (L'Opéra-Mouffe, Agnès Varda, 1958) Salut les Cubains (Agnès Varda, 1964) Uncle Yanco (Oncle Yanco, Agnès Varda, 1967) GUO4 (Peter Strickland, 2019) Atlantiques (Mati Diop, 2009) Sitara: Let Girls Dream (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, 2019) Lions Love (Lions Love... And Lies, Agnès Varda, 1969) Živan Makes a Punk Festival (Živan pravi pank festival, Ognjen Glavonić, 2014) Plastic and Glass (Tessa Joosse, 2009) The So-Called Caryatids (Les Dites Cariatides, Agnès Varda, 1984) The Octopus (La Pieuvre, Jean Painlevé, 1928) Hyas and Stenorhynchus (Hyas et sténorinques, crustacés marins, Jean Painlevé, 1929) Sea Urchins (Les Oursins, Jean Painlevé, 1929) Bernard-L'Hermite (Bernard-l'Ermite, Jean Painlevé, 1930) The Sea Horse (L'Hippocampe ou "cheval marin", Jean Painlevé, 1934) Voyage to the Sky (Voyage dans le ciel, Jean Painlevé, 1937) Le Vampire (Jean Painlevé, 1945) Freshwater Assassins (Assassins d'eau douce, Jean Painlevé, 1947) How Some Jellyfish Are Born (Comment naissent des méduses, Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon, 1960) Shrimp Stories (Histoires de crevettes, Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon, 1964) The Love Life of the Octopus (Les Amours de la pieuvre, Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon, 1965) Acera, or The Witches' Dance (Acera, ou le Bal des Sorcières, Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon, 1972) Pigeons of the Square (Les Pigeons du square, Jean Painlevé, 1982) The Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden Jones, 1982) Jane B. par Agnès V. (Agnès Varda, 1988) The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957) Crystal Swan (Хрусталь, Darya Zhuk, 2018) Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarević, 2019) Microhabitat ( 소공녀, Jeon Go-woon, 2017) The Unforeseen (Laura Dunn, 2007)

June

Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997) Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine (Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach, 2008) Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (Werner Herzog, 1989) Bells from the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia (Glocken aus der Tiefe - Glaube und Aberglaube in Russland, Werner Herzog, 1993) We Are the Best! (Vi är bäst!, Lukas Moodysson, 2013) Olla (Ariane Labed, 2019) Return to Reason (Le Retour à la raison, Man Ray, 1923) Ghosts Before Breakfast (Vormittagsspuk, Hans Richter, 1928) Sissy Boy Slap Party (Guy Maddin, 2004) The Republic of Enchanters (La République des enchanteurs, Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, 2016) Sullivan's Banks (Sullivans Banken, Heinz Emigholz, 2000) Black Panthers (Agnès Varda, 1970) Asparagus (Suzan Pitt, 1979) America (Valérie Massadian, 2013) The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 2006) The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996) Douce Menace (Ludovic Habas, Yoan Sender, Margaux Vaxelaire, Mickaël Krebs, Florent Rousseau, 2011) Curling (Denis Côté, 2010) Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001) The Return (Возвращение, Andrey Zvyaginstev, 2003) Maillart's Bridges (Maillarts Brücken, Heinz Emigholz, 2000) Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers, 2011) The Creeping Garden (Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp, 2014) Homo Sapiens (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2016) A Radiant Life (Une Vie radieuse, Meryll Hardt, 2013) Shirley (Josephine Decker, 2020) Disclosure (Sam Feder, 2020) Baghead (Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass, 2008) Lahemaa (Leslie Lagier, 2010) Closeness (Теснота, Kantemir Balagov, 2017) Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973) Daughter (Dcera, Daria Kashcheeva, 2019) Human Nature (Sverre Fredriksen, 2019) 1 Dimension (一维, Lü Yue, 2013)

July

Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012) Something to Remember (Något Att Minnas, Niki Lindroth Von Bahr, 2019) Gegenüber (Ewa Wikiel, 2019) The Claudia Kishi Club (Sue Ding, 2020) Villa Empain (Katharina Kastner, 2019) Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog, 1971) Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder,1959) Breakwater (Quebramar, Cris Lyra, 2019) Y a-t-il une vierge encore vivante? (Bertrand Mandico, 2015) Virus Tropical (Santiago Caicedo, 2017) The Tribe (Племя, Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, 2014) Integration Report 1 (Madeline Anderson, 1960) Tribute to Malcolm X (Madeline Anderson, 1967)

August

The Stopover (Voir du pays, Delphine and Muriel Coulin, 2016) Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo, Carlos Reygadas, 2018) Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, 2020) Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit, Werner Herzog, 1971) Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil, Stéphane Lafleur, 2007) Spaceship Earth (Matt Wolf, 2020) The Go-Go's (Alison Ellwood, 2020) First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019) Light of My Life (Casey Affleck, 2019) Wadjda (Haifaa al-Mansour, 2012) Spinster (Andrea Dorfman, 2020) Love and Anarchy (Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza..., Lina Wertmüller, 1973) Shapito Show (Шапито шоу, Sergey Loban, 2011) Charade (Stanley Donen, 1693) Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942) Radioactive (Marjane Satrapi, 2019) Tabloid (Errol Morris, 2010) The Mourning Forest ( 殯の森, Mogari No Mori, Naomi Kawase, 2007) Lilya 4-ever (Lilja 4-ever, Lukas Moodysson, 2002)

September

The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent, 2018) Babyteeth (Shannon Murphy, 2019) Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, 2017) Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin, Wim Wenders, 1987) In My Room (Mati Diop, 2020) Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland, 2009) Les 3 Boutons (Agnès Varda, 2015) Somebody (Miranda July, 2014) Öndög (Wang Quan'an, 2019) Strasbourg 1518 (Jonathan Glazer, 2020) Mermaid (Русалка, Anna Melikyan, 2007) The Lighthouse (Маяк, Maria Saakyan, 2006) Phenomena (Dario Argento, 1985) That One Day (Crystal Moselle, 2016) Brigitte (Lynne Ramsay, 2019) The Wedding Singer's Daughter (Haifaa al-Mansour, 2018) Shako Mako (Hailey Gates, 2019) Carmen (Chloë Sevigny, 2017) The Summer of Sangailė (Sangailės Vasara, Alanté Kavaïté, 2015) Hello Apartment (Dakota Fanning, 2018) Seed (Naomi Kawase, 2016) Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint (Halina Dyrschka, 2019) Matthias & Maxime (Xavier Dolan, 2019) The Gleaners and I (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, Agnès Varda, 2000)

October

American Murder (Jenny Popplewell, 2020) Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018) Ghostland (Pascal Laugier, 2018) Triangle (Christopher Smith, 2009) The Amityville Horror (Stuart Rosenberg, 1979) The Visit (M. Night Shyamalan, 2015) The House of the Devil (Ti West, 2009) Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990) The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973) Coherence (James Ward Byrkit, 2013) Metamorphosis (변신, Kim Hong-sun, 2019) Errementari (Paul Urkijo Alijo, 2017) I Am a Ghost (H.P. Mendoza,2012) The Changeling (Peter Medak, 1980) Witching and Bitching (Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi, Álex de la Iglesia, 2013) Thirst (박쥐, Park Chan-wook, 2009) V/H/S ( Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence, 2012) The Autopsy of Jane Doe (André Øvredal, 2016) Overlord (Julius Avery, 2018) Häxan (Benjamin Christensen, 1922) Viy (Вий, Georgiy Kropachyov & Konstantin Ershov, 1967) Amulet (Romola Garai, 2020) A Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman, 1959) The Wasp Woman (Roger Corman, 1959) Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017) Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977) The Open House (Matt Angel, Suzanne Coote, 2018)

November

The Damned Don't Cry (Vincent Sherman, 1950) Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang, 1956) The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen, 2001) The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948) The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo, 1936) Croupier (Mike Hodges, 1998) In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950) Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Louis Malle, 1958) Key Largo (John Huston, 1948) Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) The Long Farewell (Долгие проводы, Kira Muratova, 1971) The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946) Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950) Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944) The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998) Night and the City (Jules Dassin, 1950) Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)

December

Nimic (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2020) Elsa la rose (Agnès Varda, 1966) Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda, 1965) Little Girl (Petite Fille, Sébastien Lifshitz, 2020) Cold Meridian (Peter Strickland, 2020) The Fiancés of the Bridge Mac Donald (Les Fiancés du Pont Mac Donald ou (Méfiez-vous des Lunettes Noires)) (Agnès Varda, 1961) Along the Coast (Du côté de la côte, Agnès Varda, 1958) Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Vic + Flo ont vu un ours, Denis Côté, 2013) Zootopia (Byron Howard, Rich Moore, 2016) It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Paddington (Paul King, 2014) Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947) High Life (Claire Denis, 2018) Paddington 2 (Paul King, 2017)

[theparanormalperiodical]

31 Celebrity Ghost Stories You NEED To Read On Halloween Night (Or Any Time Of The Year, Screw The System)

*Puts on old professor glasses*

For generations we have been in awe of the celebrity.

*strokes beard*

For generations we have trodden their paths, followed their scents, and watched with wandering eyes exactly what they do - and all in the name of escapism.

Since the conception of humankind we have sought to understand what makes the rich and famous both rich and famous. Our philosophers decode mannerisms, our magazine editors calculate their every mistake, and the rest of us simply gaze up at the stars wondering how, why, and what we share in common with the glorified among us.

But you see-

*walks across the Ted Talk stage*

-they are just like us.

They make mistakes, they compare themselves to others, and yes, they even suck in their stomachs when trying on their new TopShop crop top and then shove it in the back of their sock drawer convinced their lower belly will always have too fat.

But even more than that, they have experiences with the paranormal.

*pulls up a chair and sits on it backwards cause for some reason people think it looks actually idk how people think it looks but whatever back to the imagery*

And so, on this Halloween night, we celebrate what brings us all together - no matter how much cash nor clout one has.

Shall we?

Miley Cyrus

During her 2009 Europe tour, Cyrus stayed in a flat in London - a flat that she claims was haunted.

"It was seriously so terrifying. It used to be an old bakery and they turned it into an apartment building, and I was having really crazy dreams and really scary things, and one night my little sister–it sounds crazy to tell you–but she was standing in the shower and all of a sudden I hear her scream.

I run in there and the water had somehow flipped to hot but it was still...It wasn’t like the water had just changed, the knob had turned but she hadn’t turned it and it was burning her.”

In the same bathroom Cyrus was convinced she saw a little boy sitting on the sink whilst she was showering. A series of other unexplained events took place until they delved into the family history of the bakery: it was passed down for generations from father to son. Cyrus believed she saw the last son to be left the bakery.

Cher

Turns out Cher doesn’t just believe in life after love but life after death, too.

The music legend herself is convinced that her late husband, Sonny, who died in 1998 is still making his presence known to her.

She claims his spirit has a habit of turning lights on to remind her he is there and often does this to her chandelier - even when there is no power.

“I love ghosts, I prefer ghosts to some people.”

Anna Nicole Smith

This late Playboy bunny was known for her bombshell sex appeal and scandalous career - but what about her forays into the supernatural?

"A ghost would crawl up my leg and have sex with me at an apartment a long time ago in Texas. I used to think it was my boyfriend, and one day I woke up and it wasn’t. It was, like, a spirit and it—woo! [miming a ghost flying from her bedsheets]—went up!

I was freaked out about it, but then I was, like, 'Well, you know what? He’s never hurt me and he just gave me some amazing sex so I have no problem.'"

When the interviewer asked her whether it was merely a dream Smith replied that it was happening every single night.

Kesha

Just like Smith, Kesha’s own experience with the paranormal is rather more sexual.

In her own words she went to the “bone zone” with a ghost.

"I don't know his name. He just started caressing me. It was a sexy time, it wasn't, like, sex."

Emma Stone

Back in 2014 Stone revealed on a late night talk show that the spirit of her grandfather often leaves quarters for her to find.

In fact, she claimed her family has a history of the small change - and its legacy clearly goes beyond the grave.

La Toya Jackson

Michael Jackson’s death is one of the most striking moments in modern history - but it turns out the King of Pop might also be the King of the Paranormal.

La Toya often claims she feels strong presences in the Jacksons’ childhood home and frequently shares about the supernatural activity coming from MJ’s old room. Many visitors, staff members, and family members have heard tap dancing coming from the room, even when they didn’t know who it used to belong to.

It was in this room that Michael would tap dance for two hours every sunday.

Susan Boyle

Boyle often recounts that she lost several members of her closest family within the span of a few short years and felt abandoned by her family. But in a 2011 interview she claimed she sees her mother’s spirit around her house, believing it to be a reminder from beyond the grave that she is not alone.

Megan Fox

"I was just in Mexico at my hotel and it was a bedroom, living room, bedroom...I had pre-ordered breakfast for 7:30, and at 7 a.m. I hear them come in with the table, I hear them pouring the coffee…

30 minutes later, at 7:30 I went in there, no table, no coffee, no food, no nothing, no one there. Door bell rings, I open the door, it's room service with my food...Brandy the nanny comes out later and says, 'Why did room service come at 7 when we told them to come at 7:30?' So you can't tell me I'm crazy, because two people heard it."

Ariana Grande

This paranormal enthusiast was visiting one of the gates of hell - Stull Cemetery - when she felt a sudden surge of negative energy around her. Flies suddenly appeared in the car and she smelt a strong odour of sulphur.

Both are symptoms of dark, demonic energy.

As they drove off she ‘apologised’ to the spirits for disturbing the peace and took a couple of pictures of the area before they left. She saw clear demonic faces in the image. When she tried to send it to her manager as proof of the strange goings on, the picture couldn’t be sent.

Why?

Because it was 666 megabytes.

Joan Rivers

This comedian’s old Manhattan apartment might be worth $28 million but it's far more famous for the supernatural entities within its walls than its price tag.

In one iconic episode of Celebrity Ghost Stories Rivers claims she even brought in a voodoo priestess to help a former resident, ‘Mr Spencer’, pass on.

Marilyn Manson

Just like Rivers, Marilyn Manson told his own paranormal experience on CGS. But his story had less spirits and more, you know, Satan.

Pressured by his peers into reading demonic incantations in a supposedly haunted basement, Manson claims he then heard demonic whispers around him asking if he believed in Satan.

Alyson Hannigan

Hannigan might be known for her Wiccan ways on the TV screen in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but her encounters with the paranormal aren’t just captured by our favourite streaming services.

Back in 2003 Hannigan claimed she lived in a haunted house - but she believes the spirit is friendly.  

“My friend saw him first one night. She said, 'I don't mean to alarm you, but I just saw a man follow us out of the house.' “

"Later that night I saw this silhouette of a man standing in the bathroom doorway. I was like, 'Sweetie, what are you doing?' I thought it was [fiance] Alexis [Denisof]. But then I looked and Alexis was asleep next to me.”

Nicolas Cage

Yes, the most memed actor in Hollywood has faced a series of paranormal experiences, too. In 2007 Cage purchased one of the most haunted houses in America in a bid to get inspired to write the latest horror novel.

He bought the LaLaurie Mansion in New Orleans, a house belonging to one of the 19th century’s most infamous serial killers.

Many believe the slaves tortured by Delphine LaLaurie still haunt the mansion. Perhaps Cage heard the wails and moans of her victims, or maybe he felt the demonic presence rumoured to have taken part in a murder of a tenant in 1894?

Demi Lovato

Lovato often makes mention of her beliefs in the paranormal - especially when it comes to her haunted house in Texas. She claims a young girl named Emily haunts her home in the South, and has even mentioned that she was a childhood ‘friend’ when she was growing up.

But this tale has to be the most terrifying:

"One of my friends, Tucker, came over one time and he asked, 'So your house is haunted?' I said, 'Yeah, just watch. Something will happen. Something always happens.' We started to watch a movie when all of a sudden a laptop in my kitchen started to play a movie also. It was a black screen before, so it was a question of who turned it on and hit play.

And after that Tucker texted a friend saying, 'I think this house is haunted, a movie just turned on by itself,' and there was a 'glitch' in his phone that kept texting him back the word 'definitely' over and over again. That happened about 30 times."

Peter Jackson

Jackson might be known for putting mystical and magical creatures on the big screen, but he’s seen similar things in real life, too.

"One night I woke up and there was a figure in the room. She was really scary—her face was like a silent scream. She glided across the room and disappeared into the wall." He told Fran in the morning and she said, "'Was it the woman with a screaming face?’ We had never spoken about it. 

She had seen the same ghost two years earlier. So I do believe in some energy, a spirit or a soul..."

Kendrick Lamar

From one famous rapper to another:

Lamar told Home Grown Radio that he had a dream about Tupac Shakur - a dream he believed conveyed a message from beyond. In the dream Tupac told him “Keep doing what you doing, don’t let my music die.”

Keanu Reeves

He’s one of the internet’s favourite celebrities - but what isn’t so famous about this Matrix star is his paranormal experience from when he was living in NYC.

"I'm probably like six, seven years old, we'd come from Australia. Renata, [our] nanny, in the bedroom, my sister is asleep, she's sitting over there, I'm hanging out. There was a doorway and all of a sudden this jacket comes waving through the doorway, this empty jacket — there's no body, there's no legs, it's just there. And then it disappears..."

The nanny saw the exact same thing.

Adele

Ghost nuns are not only on-trend but also terrify-ing. Adele can testify to that. In 2012 the singer moved into a plush Sussex mansion which used to be a convent.

A couple creepy noises later and she hired around-the-clock security to protect her against the paranormal activity. Who knows what she might’ve seen in her new $6 million home?

Matthew McConaughey

McConaughey claims his Hollywood mansion was haunted by an unhappy female spirit by the name of Madame Blu.

"I was not even under the influence and she was there. She wasn't that happy, it didn't seem like she was going to be much fun to hang around or have in my house, so I went ahead and stood my ground. I opened the door and said 'You can move around all you want but I'm not going anywhere.'"

"For weeks everyone that came to the house said the same thing: 'There's someone down in that hall, there's somebody down in that hall.'"

Ryan Gosling

Most of the celebs that made this list whip out their charming ‘lil spooky story to pique interest in their latest career venture. Gosling’s story, however, is actually pretty f*cking scary.

One day, in his childhood home, he saw a ghost of a young boy.

"He just sat. And I knew from a very young age that he was a ghost, too. He scared me. I told my mother, but she couldn't see him. Nobody could. And I learned to live with that. I had to…

Then, a few years later, [my mother] thought she saw him, then almost right away my cousin saw him, and then my uncle. And we were outta there in fairly short order."

Laura Linney

Linney is one of Hollywood’s most cherished actresses - and even on the stage she has witnessed something from the other side.

She became a believer in the paranormal after working in the Belasco Theater on Broadway.

"I had forgotten this, and I was doing a play with Jane Alexander, and I turned to Jane Alexander, and I looked up to the upper balcony—there are two balconies there—and the upper balcony you can only get in from the outside, and those doors were locked; and I looked up, and there was a woman standing in the front row looking over with a blue dress and blonde hair.

I just thought, 'Well, hello!' I looked back at Jane, and I looked back up, and she was gone. I went to the house manager and I said, 'Joe, I think I saw a ghost.' And he went, 'male or female?' I said, 'female.' And he went, 'blue dress, blonde hair?'"

Megan Mullally

Another famous ghost that haunts a famous face features on this list. But this time the paranormal activity described by Mullally is certainly the most tragic.

She claims she lived in a house haunted by the spirit of Nicole Brown Simpson who was murdered in 1994. She believes that only when her husband watched the American Crime Story series about her death did the strange occurrences (most of which were odd and unexplained sounds) settle.

Kristen Stewart

Only last year our very own Bella Swan opened up not just about her own experiences with ghosts, but her own spiritual connection with other people.

“If I’m in a weird, small town, making a movie, and I’m in a strange apartment, I will literally be like, ‘No, please, I cannot deal. Anyone else, but it cannot be me.’ Who knows what ghosts are, but there is an energy that I’m really sensitive to. Not just with ghosts, but with people. People stain rooms all the time.”

Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher lived an extraordinary life. She was one of the few a-listers to openly discuss her struggles with mental health and drug use before it became so accepted in mainstream society. Unfortunately, these topics would haunt her in a rather more supernatural manner, too.

Following the overdose of a friend sleeping next to her in her mansion, Fisher claimed she would often feel their presence around her.

"Lights would go on and off, and I had this toy machine, that when you touched it would say, 'F*ck you! Eat sh*t! You’re an asshole!' And it would go off in the night, by itself, in my closet.”

She later hired an exorcist to cleanse the house of the spirit.

Halle Berry

Whilst filming Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Berry would experience intense paranormal activity she believed was down to her dress.

A dress formerly owned by the woman titling the film.

"I'd come home and the housekeeper would say she'd heard my vanity chair moving upstairs in the bathroom. When the film was over, I desperately wanted to keep her dress, but it had to go. And then everything was fine."

Lady Gaga

Just like Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga has had her own dealings with the spirit of an icon. But instead of rap legend Tupac, she got the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen.

"Right after he died, I wrote 'Born This Way.' I think he's up in heaven with fashion strings in his hands, marionetting away, planning this whole thing…

I didn't even write the f*king song. He did!"

Melissa McCarthy

Comedian Melissa McCarthy revealed in 2016 that she believed in ghosts - and gave insight into where her beliefs came from.

"I grew up on a farm and I didn't have any real friends,

I have a very strong belief that people are out there, because I was certainly talking to someone in those barns. Otherwise I'm just crazy. I really strongly believe in ghosts."

Jessica Alba

In 2008, Alba told US Weekly about her own encounter with the paranormal when she was a child.

“I felt this pressure and I couldn’t get up, I couldn’t scream, I couldn’t talk, I couldn’t do anything

Something definitely took the covers off me and I definitely couldn’t get off the bed, and then, once I did, I screamed, ran to my parents’ room and I don’t think I spent many nights in that house ever again.”

Jenna Bush Hager

The White House already has a reputation for its paranormal activity (Abe Lincoln often makes a reappearance during times of crisis) and this former first daughter has evidence to support such a claim.

"I was asleep, there was a fireplace in my room and all of a sudden I heard 1920's music coming out. I could feel it. I freaked out and ran into my sister's room. She was like, 'Please go back to sleep, this is ridiculous.'"

Lucy Liu

This Charlie’s Angel - like so many of the people included in this article - claims she had sexual relations with something supernatural.

“I felt everything. I climaxed. And then he floated away.”

Bella Thorne

"I was lying in bed when I saw a shadowy, silvery figure of an old woman creeping across my room, then it slipped into my closet…

I panicked and ran out of bed and swung open my closet door only to see she was in there. But she was gone. I was sure I had seen her ghost! It was really freaky."

Do you believe ‘em?

If you liked this post be sure to like, reblog, and hit the follow button! 

Got your own paranormal experience to share? Head on over to the peoplesparanormal.com to read real ghost stories and submit your own!

Happy Halloween, lads.

[wherethesunsails]

hola guapito, ¿quieres comprar la agua bañera de la jugadora del videojuegos?

anon are you asking me if I want to buy belle delphine's bathwater

[claudehenrion]

Bonne et heureuse année ! - ( I ) : Mais c’est mal barré

  Adios, 2020 ! Adieu, sans ''au revoir'' ! Et pour 2021, tous mes vœux les plus doux et les plus fous ! Surtout les plus fous, car tout est tellement mal emmanché ! Ces dernières semaines, nos stars du ''à qui perd, perd'' n'ont pas résisté à remettre une couche de leur spécialité, le ''un pas en avant, deux pas en arrière'', avec leur très scandaleux ''Article 6'' du projet de loi sur les urgences sanitaires : ils juraient que leur vaccin anti-covid (que 60 % des français refusent) resterait facultatif... mais assorti d'une salve d'interdits contre tous ceux qui n’adhéreraient pas à leur fantasme du ''vaccin miracle qui rattraperait leurs erreurs et leurs mensonges''.  (NDLR - Je n'avais aucun mérite à vous mettre en garde contre leur attrait pour la dictature : les cons, au fond, c'est assez transparent, donc prévisible)

En le retirant assez vite pour oser affirmer qu'il n'avait jamais existé (hélas, ''scripta manent'' ), ils se sont imaginés que les français ne verraient que du beurre dans leurs magouilles. D'accord, on le préfère absent que présent, ce satané article, mais sans cesser d'être inquiets : on le retrouvera à la première occasion, si on leur laisse la bride sur le coup. Ces députés ''En marche'' ont des âmes de tyranneaux, on n'y pourra rien changer. Mais il ne faudra jamais oublier que : ''En catimini, à quelques jours de Noël, le lundi 21 décembre 2020, le Premier ministre Jean Castex a déposé en procédure accélérée un projet de loi rien moins que dictatorial''.

Aux sceptiques qui trouvent que le mot est fort, il suffit de rappeler que les régimes dictatoriaux ont traditionnellement privilégié les situations d'urgence pour s’ancrer avec un semblant de légalité. On parie qu'ils en remettent une couche, à l'été au plus tard ? Par exemple au prétexte qu'ils ont complètement raté (aussi) leur ''stratégie'' (que ne fait-on dire aux mots ! Si leurs cafouillages sont une stratégie, moi, je suis protonotaire apostolique !). Il suffit de savoir que l'Espagne (socialiste ''en titre'' au lieu de l'être ''en douce'' comme la France), vient de proclamer, ce 4 janvier, que le vaccin n'est pas obligatoire... tout en ouvrant un ''Registre des non-vaccinés''. Ah la belle idée que voilà ! On a de beaux jours devant nous !

Retour sur images : ce projet de loi prévoyait le droit, pour le gouvernement, de ne plus consulter le Parlement sur l’état d’urgence... qui pouvait ainsi être maintenu indéfiniment. Le préambule parlait d'un cadre ''pérenne'', càd. faire de l’exception une règle. Un état de crise sanitaire pourrait être déclenché et prorogé sur simple décret, en conseil des ministres, le pauvre Parlement devant juste ''être informé'', et les pouvoirs exceptionnels étaient étendus : ''le Premier ministre pourra recourir à des prérogatives de police administrative extérieures au domaine strictement sanitaire'' (sic ! Et certains veulent nous faire croire --et essaient de se faire croire à eux-mêmes-- qu'on serait toujours dans un Etat démocratique !).

Certains imaginaient qu'ils allaient s'arrêter en si bon chemin ? Pas du tout ! Il faut ''pérenniser'' les restrictions à la liberté (d’entreprendre, de circuler, de penser ''pas comme il faut'', de voir ses amis, d'aller dans sa maison de campagne, de dire adieu à un ami d'enfance qui se meurt, etc...) : le retour à la vie, qui n’est pas pour demain, ne serait octroyé qu’aux seuls vaccinés, les autres se retrouvant assimilés à des sous-citoyens disposant de droits partiels : ''Le Premier ministre peut (…) subordonner les déplacements des personnes, leur accès aux moyens de transport ou à certains lieux, ainsi que l’exercice de certaines activités (…) au suivi d’un traitement préventif, y compris à l’administration d’un vaccin.'' Tout est dit

Mais me direz-vous à quoi bon revenir aujourd'hui sur un projet qui a été ''retiré'' ? Mais justement parce qu'il n'a pas été retiré ! Nos gouvernants ''En Marche'' sont incapables de renier la moindre de leurs mauvaises idées, et ils vont donc, n'en doutez pas, revenir à l'attaque à la première occasion où ''ça passe'', par exemple, une nouvelle et n-ième ‘’vague’’ artificiellement créée et tellement mal gérée qu'elle deviendrait un réel problème  Les braves citoyens, terrifiés  (on ferait ce qu'il faut pour ça), se rendraient compte trop tard qu'ils ont été floués. Pas besoin d'aller chercher bien loin des exemples : le 23 septembre 2019, et le foutage de gueules de Ferrand lors du vote à main levée de l'article 2 de la loi qu'ils osaient appeler ''bioéthique'' (Les compte-rendus de séance et la vidéo de la députée En Marche qui votait une fois oui et une fois non sont disponibles sur tous les réseaux).

C'est loin, me direz-vous ? Mais bien plus près, il y a eu le vote de la prolongation des délais d'assassinat de bébés, pour le confort ''social'' de leur mère (c'est n'importe quoi !), le 8 octobre dernier. Il n'y avait dans l'hémicycle que les 86 clampins qui avaient fomenté ce coup fourré, et qui en ont profité pour supprimer la clause de sauvegarde de la conscience des praticiens : l'honneur serait une notion inconnue, en macronie. Et surtout, il ne faut pas perdre de vue que à la fin de cette année 2021, nous serons déjà en campagne pour la prochaine ''présidentielle'' : les promesses intenables et hors-sujet vont fleurir, telles les 149 idioties des 150 fanatiques du Comité de Salut Public post-Gilets jaunes. Il faut redouter le pire !

Le plus drôle (enfin... un peu !) c'est que nos maîtres ''ès-mauvaise foi'' réalisent, les unes après les autres, toutes les horreurs qui devraient, disent-ils, venir de ceux qu'ils taxent de ''complotisme''. Après la chasse aux sorcières de ceux qui pensent (c'est leur seul crime) autrement que les ânes au pouvoir, c'est l’institutionnalisation du fichage des opinions politiques des Français et la réduction spectaculaire de l’espace de nos libertés qui sont mis sur la table. Les opposants au régime et à l'idéologie dominante sont dénoncés, limogés, attaqués, à l’image du brillant Professeur Perronne, salement démis de ses fonctions à l’hôpital de Garches par l’AP-HP par un nul... Mais très rares sont les voix autorisées qui s’en sont offusqué : le monde politique, décervelé, intoxiqué, regarde pudiquement ailleurs. Car la créativité de ces malfaisants est sans limite ! Par exemple : le souhait de Delphine Ernotte de faire disparaitre des écrans de télé du Sévice public tout homme-blanc-hétérosexuel-de-plus-de-50-ans est en bonne voie (Personne ne lui a demandé sur quels a-priori se fondait cette haine raciste). Sans doute que serait enfin venu le temps de la revanche sur le ''crime contre l’humanité'' que fut la colonisation telle que réinventée par Macron... et venu aussi le temps de ces humiliés perpétuels que seraient noirs, maghrébins et LGBTI+ (tiens, personne ne parle des Asiatiques ?). Ah, ça ira, ça ira ! Tous les racistes (vous  et  moi, tous les blancs, mais aucun des autres) à la lanterne !  (NDLR - Il ne s'agit pas de cette Lanterne luxueuse ou le Président se soigne de trop porter le masque et de trop théatralement montrer sa maîtrise des gesticulations-barrière... Et tout ça pour aboutir in fine à un résultat pire que les pires des ''complotistes'' honnis !)

La perversité persistante et la nullité profonde de nos guides sont résumées dans cette brève apostrophe (aussi courte que mortifère) de notre Président à l'occasion de la récente visite du Président égyptien Abdul-Fattāḥ as-Sīssī, musulman convaincu : ''Il n'y a rien au-dessus des hommes''... ce qui est, pour tout ''croyant'' (comme pour tout ''non-croyant'' doté de cinq sens en état de marche), à la fois une idiotie, une insulte et une provocation, balancées -et c'est encore plus grave- ''au nom de la France'' par celui qui raconte qu'il rêve de ''rationaliser l'Islam'' (sic !  MDR !).  Son inculture et sa prétention égalent son insolence et son ignorance des bons usages pratiqués dans le domaine d'habitude feutré (et donc efficace) de la diplomatie. Bonne année, dites-vous ? On n'en trouve guère de traces que dans le bordel covidistique qui fait de nous la risée de la Terre entière. L'Ecclésiaste nous avait prévenus : ''Malheur à la Cité dont le Prince est un enfant'' ! (à suivre) 

H-Cl.

[anikastornieren]

𝐼𝓉 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝓁𝒹𝑒𝓃 𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓇.//𝒫.𝒪.𝒱 𝒥𝑜𝑔𝑜𝓈 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒸𝒶𝓈𝒶𝓈

Tɦɛ Pɛɑcѳck, Tɦɛ ɗѳѵɛ, Tɦɛ ѳwʆ ɑɳɗ Pɑʀiร — Pɑʀt 1

Depois de uma busca sem qualquer resultado na torre de astronomia e no laboratório de poções, depois disso a D’Rose precisou voltar a seus treinos para apresentação que teria em conjunto com Delphine, então, ambas combinaram que seguiram com sua jornada atrás da relíquia da casa da Branca de Neve no dia seguinte, assim teriam descansado a cabeça e provavelmente se encontrariam em melhor estado para procurar a maçã. A Snow só não esperava que pela primeira vez desde que havia sido agraciada de seus novos poderes, Florence acordaria antes dela e ficaria aos prantos em cima de seu corpo, pensando que ela havia morrido, o que não estava inteiramente errado… Mas tão pouco estava inteiramente certo, porém, ela demorou um bom tempo acalmando a colega de quarto e explicando sua situação atual, explicando também o que havia descoberto até então sobre seu novo poder, o que não era muito se fosse ser sincera, ainda queria descobrir quais outras utilidades e capacidades ele poderia ter. Na verdade, essa era uma oportunidade perfeita para fazer uso de ambos seus poderes, mesmo que da última vez um espírito havia a levado a lugar nenhum com a história da torre de astronomia. Mas isso se devia exclusivamente por ter escutado o espírito de uma criança, que claramente buscava brincar consigo. Então, no dia de hoje ela se focaria em pedir ajuda aos espíritos que sabia que podia confiar, no de seu avô e naqueles que havia ajudado durante a semana, também contanto com a  ajuda de seus fiéis amigos, Jinskí, Accalia e Foguete.     

—-Certo, Accalia chame Aldolf e cheque a floresta junto com ele, Jinskí e Foguete vão indo na frente procurar na cozinha que Florence e eu logo mais iremos nos  juntar a vocês. — Instruiu aos animais a sua frente no quarto, logo depois se virando para encarar os fantasmas que enchiam o quarto das ralienas. —Vocês serão meus olhos e ouvidos pelo instituto, conto com a ajuda de vocês para acharem qualquer pista e nos alertar caso escutem algo sobre nossa relíquia ou caso algum aprendiz de outra casa esteja perto de encontrar algo.  

—Não sei se algum dia vou conseguir me acostumar com isso tudo Annie… — Comentou Florence alternando seu olhar entre a Snow e os fantasmas do qual ela não via, o que provavelmente apenas tornava aquela cena ainda mais bizarra, mas a loira apenas a olhava com certa curiosidade

—As vezes eu penso a mesma coisa, Flor, mas c’est la vie, ou nesse caso vida após a morte. — Brincou no intuito de amenizar o clima, dando uma breve risada junto de um outro espírito. Mas não demorou a voltar a expressão séria, já que naquele estado era como se estivesse anestesiada até mesmo de seus sentimentos, o que não parecia tão ruim visto o que andava acontecendo consigo. —Certo, como você havia mencionado sobre espelhos, pensei que seria mais útil começar a procurar no salão comunal da Ralien, afinal, espelhos não nos faltam. 

E foi então que se separaram, deixando Florence e Anika sozinhas para vasculhar o salão comunal da Ralien, aproveitando que não haviam muitos de seus colegas de casa por ali naquele horário, imaginava que já deviam ter procurado por ali antes, mas ainda assim talvez tivessem deixado algo passar, algo do qual ninguém estava prestando atenção. Anika e Florence procuravam em cantos opostos da sala, a Snow agora mexia nos quadros que haviam pendurados pela sala, procurando se havia algum cofre ou coisa parecida atrás de algum deles, isso até se deparar com um grande quadro de uma macieira, cheia de maçãs douradas. Pendeu a cabeça para o lado, lembrando-se vagamente de alguma história que Rhea havia lhe contado, algo sobre três Deusas, um mortal e uma maçã dourada, mas não lembrava muito bem sobre o que exatamente se tratava a história. Foi tirada de seus devaneios quando sentiu o toque da mão de Florence em seu ombro esquerdo, lhe fazendo virar para a encarar, percebendo que havia ficado parada tempo demais analisando a pintura. 

—Não achei nada nos espelhos, você conseguiu achar algo nos quadros, Annie?

—Infelizmente não, tudo parece normal por aqui, acho melhor a gente ir direto para a cozinha mesmo, se a maçã estivesse aqui ainda alguém já teria achado. 

Foi tudo que respondeu com certa frustração. ainda que aquele resultado já fosse o esperado, seriam muito estúpidos caso a maçã estivesse no salão comunal o tempo inteiro e ninguém tivesse a encontrado ainda. Antes de sair da sala, ela se virou uma última vez para observar a pintura da macieira cercada de maçãs douradas, que por alguma razão estranha lhe chamava a atenção, mas julgou que não fosse nada demais e seguiu seu caminho com a herdeira de Belle até a cozinha do castelo, felizmente, Jinskí e Foguete já teriam procurado em todos os lugares pequenos e inferiores por agora, assim poupando o trabalho das duas princesas. Quando chegaram na cozinha, ela podia ouvir já os resmungos de Foguete antes de sequer entrar no local, então, já alertou a loira antes que ela se visse confusa com o temperamento do guaxinim. 

—Já lhe aviso com antecedência, Foguete não está no melhor dos humores pelo que escuto, não devem ter achado nada ainda. — Explicou enquanto abria a porta da cozinha e adentrava a mesma, sendo seguida pela D’Rose, mas antes que houvesse tempo da princesa questionar o que estava acontecendo, um guaxinim muito raivoso veio em sua direção, apontando um dos dedinhos na direção da Snow. 

—Você! Cérebro de pistache! Acha que foi fácil entrar aqui quando você esqueceu de avisar alguém do clube de culinária que a gente viria?! Eles quiseram me expulsar e um dos aprendizes jurava que eu era um gambá! E teve a audácia de dizer que eu fedia, mesmo eu sendo o guaxinim mais cheiroso da região! — O animal falava seu monólogo de forma exagerada e brava, enquanto Florence observava a cena com os olhos arregalados e Jinskí ria ao fundo. —E se você não mandar aquele furão parar de rir, eu quebro ele no meio, sacou, projeto de cadáver?! 

—Desculpe, foi erro de minha parte ter esquecido de avisar alguém, mas deu tudo certo no final é o que importa… E Já lhe pedi para que seja mais educado, não lhe custa nada, se souber me disser quem disse essas coisas sobre você, eu mesma posso resolver o mal entendido depois de nossa jornada, certo? 

—Certo é o caralho! Eu mesmo vou me resolver com aquele projeto de aprendiz!

Foi a última coisa que o guaxinim resmungou antes de voltar a procurar a maçã dourada pela cozinha, Anika apenas fez um gesto com a mão para que a loira não desse bola e se focasse apenas em procurar a bendita relíquia. E assim ela deram início a sua caça na cozinha, por mais que a princesa estivesse tentando ser otimista, não criava muitas expectativas de que achariam a relíquia ali, ainda mais quando Foguete já tinha mencionado anteriormente que os aprendizes do clube de culinária estavam ali, certamente não deixariam passar uma maçã dourada lhes escapar de vista.Depois de uns quinze minutos vasculhando todos os cantos possíveis da cozinha, ela viu Florence soltar um longo suspiro e fizeram uma pausa, para que a loira tomasse um copo de água, visto que estava cansada. 

—Você tem certeza de que não quer beber um pouco de água também? Ou comer alguma coisa? Aliás, faz tempo que você não faz algum doce para gente comer, pode fazer alguma coisa depois da caça a relíquia? — Perguntou a raliena mais nova com os olhos brilhando, devido ao amor que tinha por doces, Anika se forçou a dar uma curta risada, por que sabia que era assim que reagiria e, uma situação normal. 

—Não preciso beber água ou comer, não enquanto estiver morta ao menos… Mas depois quando eu voltar a vida, provavelmente estarei morrendo de fome, então posso fazer algo sim. 

Sorriu na direção da mais nova, a piada sobre estar morrendo de fome depois não sendo intencional, porém, inevitável. Não se sentia cansada naquela forma, o que era um dos benefícios da habilidade, afinal, alguma coisa boa deveria de existir. Depois do descanso, elas saíram da cozinha, acompanhadas de Jinskí e Foguete, que ainda reclamava baixo sobre como todos aqueles aprendizes eram burros demais por não terem achado a maldita maçã ainda. Anika apenas revirou os olhos, não conversou muito com Florence durante o caminho, não por falta de assunto, mas meramente por que ela parecia muito sem vida quando estava naquele estado de morte consciente, não viu nenhum dos espíritos que estavam lhe ajudando no caminho, mas imaginou que eles surgiriam no mais tardar. Quando chegaram ao ginásio, sequer tiveram muito tempo para procurar visto que um feixe de luz surgiu debaixo das arquibancadas e de dentro dele saiu o irmão gêmeo de Anika, com o típico sorriso pintando os lábios dele. 

—Desculpa, Flor, sabe que eu não teria chamado ele se não achasse necessário. — Se desculpou com a loira de imediato, visto que sabia que  desculpou com a loira, visto que sabia que ela não tinha uma boa relação com o irmão gêmeo da Snow, na verdade, era difícil para Anika pensar em uma pessoa da qual Leonard realmente tinha uma relação boa.  

—Todas as escolhas, sejam elas boas ou ruins, vão ter suas consequências e finalmente você fez uma escolha boa ao me chamar, maninha. Foi ideia de quem, Foguete? Accalia?

𝒯𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓃𝓊𝑒𝒹...

@florencedrose

[giclianas]

( orsini 004 ) ☩ per te è la gloria. giuliana orsini has arrived in florence from rome, resembling matilda lutz. i have heard talk she is astute & compassionate, so long as you overlook that she is also opportunistic & secretive. they’re a member of the orsini family, but, in this unholy city, is blood truly thicker than water? one day they might realize their ambition to gain a position in delphine of valois’ household, but only time will tell… e il regno. ☩ as written by di; est, she/her, 21+.

name: giuliana orsini

age / d.o.b.: 27, august 12 1452

birth order: second eldest.

house: orsini.

place of origin: rome.

sexuality: bisexual.

horoscope: leo.

physique / height: voluptuous, 5'7.

faceclaim: matilda lutz.

virtues: headstrong, intrepid, charismatic.

vices: selfish, conceited, vain, opportunistic.

relationship status: unmarried.

children: n/a.

religion: roman catholic.

born in the countryside of rome, a splendorous and noble city flourishing with skillful men and distinguished women in may of 1452, church bells rang from the palazzo orsini for the occasion of her birth across a peninsula relishing in the spring. rome, the seat and majesty of religion, had never before experienced such prosperity, nor witnessed such tranquility: at the heart of its recent achievements stood giuliana’s own father, signore orsini, his shrewd and astute nature enriched by the nobly beguiling wife at his side. her mother, bona orsini, a member of the imminent d’este family, her father the head of the illustrious orsini family, giuliana’s birth had effectively combined the bloodlines of two dynasties, consolidating their power into one imposing household, and she would not live to forget the monumental feat her birth had achieved. adored since the moment her cries trumpeted as resoundingly as the bells celebrating her birth, giuliana made swift work of establishing herself as a presumptuous favorite –– able to charm the skin off a snake, or sulk her way into satisfaction, she proved as enchanting as she was duplicitous, seldom denied that which she pined for and very rarely chided for her overbold reach.

but if her immediate family rejoiced upon the occasion of her christening, then rival dynasties would despair; at the time of her birth, the orsini family was firmly locked into an ancient, legendary grudge with competing roman families such as the colonnas, and, more recently, the upstart borgias. their rivals would vie with prepossessing, precocious daughters of their own, and it became paramount that giuliana was reared with the best education her family’s extensive wealth could buy, adorned with striking fashions and transfixed with a reputation of both piety and grace so that she would have an opportunity to have her first pick among the bachelors of europe.

as she grew into her own, it became imminently clear that giuliana was content to play in her family’s games, even if discouraged, as an innately competitive and motivated individual. she longed not only to prove her lineage’s worth, as the orsinis already proved their weight in gold, but her own: so she turned her eye to marriage, seeking to secure the best arrangement her father could possibly muster, the brokering of nuptials both a civic and personal duty to the orsini family. aided by her mother’s sharp eye for social advancement, the orsinis attained a match with the della rovere family, betrothing giuliana to their eldest scion: francesco, lord of montecchio. her husband proved decidedly unambitious; an ambiguous individual, with nothing to distinguish himself from other men except for his listlessness, whose days were consumed with religious devotion.

his nondescript facade crumbled when, three years into the marriage, giuliana hastened upon a room occupied by francesco and his male lover––an artist, only nineteen, whom the family had acted as patron to for a number of months. the marriage became violent following this revelation; poisoned by threats from both parties, physical and mental ferocity, creating a storm of disillusionment and dejection in which giuliana seemed to have lost the ignition to her ambition and drive. consumed by rage, humiliation, but never sorrow, giuliana turned to the single individual who could rescue her from this plight: her mother. they secured a modest position in the papal army for francesco’s young lover, and for her husband, the wages of sin would be death. giuliana returned to her family’s estate at bassanello the morning before francesco’s death, and would never return to the villa that nurtured her marriage except to weep over her husband’s body––cold and lifeless, no different from its living form––who’d passed away in a fit of coughs over the night. (as her mother’s bane seeped into his lungs.) she did not mourn for francesco; she mourned for the virgin bride he’d blackened.