#Christine Griffin

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WOW x WOW presents 'The Becoming', a group art exhibition of new artworks featuring over 90 original artworks by more than 70 international artists.

Selected art by Irem Kurban, Angelika Rasmus, Brian Holderman, Christine Griffin, Esther Limones, Iryna Khymych and CM Duffy.

The online exhibition opens Friday March 8 at 7pm UK on the WOW x WOW website and will be on view until March 29 2024.

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Knight of Wands. Art by Christine Griffin, from 78 Tarot Halloween.

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Nymeria Sand by C. Griffin for Fantasy Flight Games

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this has been occupying my mind for weeks

[skiddykid]

Continuing on my quest try more book cover illustration by doing my own take on a cover for Widdershins 🌀

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Jojo Rabbit (2019)

Jojo Rabbit walks a delicate line. One scene is laugh-out-loud, darkly comedic. The next is soul-crushing. When you look at it on paper, it shouldn’t work. On the screen, it’s memorable, tender, hilarious and insightful - a picture like none other. There are some who will find it tasteless but for the rest, it's one you'll be compelled to revisit.

In the final years of WWII, Ten-year-old Johannes “Jojo” Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis) dreams of serving in Nazi Germany's army like his absent father. While at Hitler Youth Camp, Jojo follows the advice of his imaginary best friend, a child’s rendition of Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi). After an accident cripples him, he is sent back home. There, he discovers his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is harbouring a Jewish teenaged girl (Thomasin McKenzie).

This film excels at exposing the hypocrisy of the propaganda necessary to keep the Nazi machine (and similar systems) going. Jojo is only a child and even he has difficulty understanding how Elsa can be a demonic creature with horns and wings that drinks blood and can mind control good German boys, is cripplingly fascinated with shiny things and also an enemy the Nazis will easily eliminate. To him, she looks just like a normal girl. None of the interactions they have confirm her as dangerous.

The characters of Elsa, Jojo and his mother are all played relatively straight. Everyone else is a living contradiction. Rebel Wilson plays Fräulein Rahm. Despite being unmarried, she boasts having given birth to 18 children for Germany. How that’s possible, who knows. Her unreleting enthusiasm for the Nazi cause is bizarre considering her job at the Hitler Youth camp is to teach the girls there to dress wounds, take care of the injured… and have children. Not particularly exciting compared to the boys, who get to play with live munitions and enjoy the outdoors. The next noteworthy contradiction within the film is Nazi Germany’s attitude towards children. We’re told they’re the future, that the world will belong to them but as the tide of war shifts, we see the kids become be extremely disposable in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it bit of off-sceen gruesomeness. The whole thing is topped by Taika Waititi’s portrayal of Hitler. Self-described as a Polynesian Jew, even if Waititi wasn’t directing and writing, his casting would feel like a smart, subversive inside joke. As the film begins, this Adolf Hitler is Jojo’s best friend. Once the boy starts questioning what the authorities have been feeding him, Hitler becomes increasingly hostile and comical. He’s more “so pathetic you’re glad you can laugh at him” than “funny because it’s so wrong to see Hitler doing this” kind of funny.

Lest you think this film does not take what happened during WWII seriously, understand that key scenes make you forget all about the fanciful imagination of Jojo’s world and bring you back to reality. The scenes with him and his mother, for example, are surprisingly grounded. You can feel the exhasperation Rosie must feel as her son makes all of these statements about Adolf Hitler, the Nazi cause, Jews and Germany. How frustrating it must be for her to endure what she hears. She could tell Jojo what the truth is, but he's a child. He doesn't understand what's really going on and doesn't understand that admitting the truth out loud could have serious consequences.

Though there are some big, memorable laughs within Jojo Rabbit, the dramatic revelations are so sobering that the drama/comedy split doesn't feel like it's down the middle. Said revelations only come in during the latter half of the movie, however, so they hit you when you least expect it - and hit you hard. This is not the kind of movie you easily forget precisely because it makes bold, bizarre-sounding choices. Though there is a chance you'll be so off-put by "Jojo Rabbit" that it won't be your cup of tea, every move that's being made has been carefully considered and the themes used throughout make it a picture I don't hesitate to recommend. (February 10, 2023)

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Jojo Rabbit, 2019

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But do have a conversation later, please.

[neek00draws]

Working on some character interactions for the Retro Au. Featuring Sybil, Christine, Elizabeth (Gothic gals, thanks Ivy), Mad scientist trio, and John Lennon the cat.

(Which explains Griffin freaking out over Adam’s ((The Creature)) kitten lol) 😂

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[Image description: the first image is a digital drawing in a semi-painterly style of Whyborne and Griffin walking arm in arm down the street. Whyborne is holding a red flower and blushes as he looks down at it, and Griffin is looking at him and smiling. The background is painterly and shows the street and lampposts lining it. The second image is a closeup of the drawing. End description]

Valentine’s day stroll through the bestest horrible murder town!

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“As Wonder Follows, Shining” graphite, charcoal and chalk on paper treated with iridescent watercolor, so it sheeeeemers

[mrhyde-mrseek]

My favorite duos in The Case Files and why

Clara and the Time Traveller

They trust each other

Clara was the first the Time Traveller came out to (albeit accidentally)

Both optimistic

Good at on-the-spot planning

Griffin and Clara

Aroace solidarity

Unlikely friendships are the best

Sarcastic, stubborn, competitive, and ambitious

There’s a scene in book 2 where Clara saves Griffin from being beaten up by Brom Bones and it’s one of my favorites

Harker and Adam

Adam is sort of Harker’s right-hand man

Adam actually lived with the Harkers for a while before the Order was officially formed, they were some of the first people to treat him like a person

Adam yells at the Order when Harker is otherwise occupied

They trust each other with their lives

They’re also two of the four Order members who don’t actively cause chaos wherever they go (the other two being Watson and Allan)

The Time Traveller and Jekyll/Hyde

Well, they’re boyfriends, so-

Scientists who slightly regret their creations

Hyde’s helping the Time Traveller become less terrified of the risks their relationship poses (or is trying to, at least)

They would literally throw themselves in front of a moving train to protect the other

Mind-bending science

Tall x short boyfriends

Dorothy Gale and Christine Daeé

Gardening together helped Christine work through her trauma by providing a distraction

Dorothy isn’t afraid to yell at anyone in Sleepy Hollow who makes racist remarks about Christine (who is Black)

Unlikely friendship—Christine is very quiet, while Dorothy is rather blunt

English lessons for Christine

They thing the other’s accent is endearing

Did I mention they like gardening together

Harker and Katrina Van Tassel

Both leaders of their respective orders

Good at planning together, get along surprisingly well

Have experience with the supernatural

Harker was the second person to find out that Katrina’s a witch (Ichabod being the first)

Katrina hasn’t met Mina yet (that’s book 3) but they will absolutely become best friends once she does

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Eight of Swords. Art by Christine Griffin, from 78 Tarot Magical.

RISE! The 8 of Swords, a particularly poignant card for those of us who often overthink things, and get caught in that mindloop of perceived powerlessness.

🗡Flip that script. Reverse this self-set trap.🗡

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Third wheels

(And introducing our newest character Catherine Linton, Jr of Wuthering Heights)

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Jojo Rabbit (2019)

My rating: 7/10

This movie basically has one trick - getting you caught up in the Wes Anderson of it all and then pulling out the rug from under you by reminding you that this is Nazi Germany, it's War, and There Are Monsters - but it does that rather well, so.

Why was everybody doing a dodgy German accent, though? I mean, in universe they were speaking German, right? Speaking of which, the whole "German shepherd" bit, while funny, doesn't really work in German, because we obviously just call them shepherd dogs. That one must've been a pain in the ass for the translators.

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Jo Joyner goes back to Malta for Channel 5

Jo Joyner goes back to Malta for Channel 5

Jo Joyner has already made one show in Malta for Channel 5, now she’s filming another. Jo Joyner, Angela Griffin, and Tamzin Outhwaite are the lead cast in new drama, The Wives. It’s described as a six-part mystery drama that follows the unravelling of one family in a summer that changes all their lives. Last year, four sisters-in-law and their families escaped to their Maltese holiday…