#Lois Hunt

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Helen Chandler: Ophelia in Hamlet (1925 Broadway); Margaret in Faust (1928 Broadway); Jane Bennett in Pride and Prejudice (1935 Broadway)

Lois Hunt: Papagena in The Magic Flute (1951 Met); Musetta in La bohème (1951 Met); Adele in Die Fledermaus (1953 Met)

Propaganda under the cut

Helen Chandler:

She’s so pretty and sweet and had a cat named Blue Bell which is so cute I'm gonna cry

Lois Hunt:

[perfettamentechic]

26 luglio … ricordiamo …

26 luglio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2021: Gogó Rojo, nome d’arte di Gladys del Valle Rojo Castro, attrice argentina. Sorella di Ethel Rojo.  (n. 1942) 2020: Olivia de Havilland, nata Olivia Mary de Havilland, è stata un’attrice britannica naturalizzata statunitense. Sorella maggiore dell’attrice Joan Fontaine. (n. 1916) 2020: Claudia Giannotti, attrice e doppiatrice italiana. Fu moglie del doppiatore e attore Carlo Valli. (n.…

[nopes-and-dreams-and-nightmares]

Power of the press!

Iris West and Lois Lane prepare to interrogate interview Lex Luthor.

I went entirely too hard on this for a lil three panel gag but it’s all good because Iris and Lois look good and that’s all that matters.

...that and making Lex sweat.

[valkaryah]

Twister (1996) dir. Jan de Bont

[jotun-philosopher]

If you liked that, you might like this: Good Omens and World Of The Five Gods

Heyo! Time for another ramble~!

Good Omens has given me a bit of a taste for theologically interesting fantasy, which led me to the World of the Five Gods series by Lois McMaster Bujold -- let me tell you about it! (Not everything, but hopefully enough to whet your appetite and spark your curiosity ^_^)

Putting everything under a cut, because while this isn't really a meta and I'm going to try to avoid spoilers as far as possible, I am going to be infodumping so it's gonna get loooooooooong XD #AutismForTheWin

So! World of the Five Gods is set in a sort of fantasy-counterpart-culture version of Medieval Europe (more or less late Reconquista era), but with the map rotated 180 degrees. Consistent across countries and cultures is the Quintarian religion, which involves worship of a pantheon of five gods:

The Father of Winter, who deals with mature manhood, fatherhood, justice, fairness, leadership, natural deaths, male virility and suchlike. His colours are grey and black.

The Mother of Summer, who covers mature womanhood, motherhood, love and its results, female sexuality, birth, renewal and healing/medicine, among others. Her colour is green.

The Daughter of Spring, whose purview is youth, beauty, virginity, education and planting. Her colour is blue, which is frequently trimmed with white.

The Son of Autumn, who covers war, hunting, courage, harvest and emotion. His colours are red and orange.

The Bastard, the broadly benevolent but frequently inscrutable trickster figure of the pantheon. His purview is orphans, demons, disasters and chaos, illegitimate children, queer folks, executioners, divine justice where mortal justice fails, lives unnaturally cut short, "all things out of season". His colour is white. He likes it when his followers 'pray' to him by cursing him out, both because they're actually *thinking* about their situations and because he finds it hilarious. (His sense of humour is a bit odd...) At the uttermost end of mortal justice, when all else has failed, one can pray to the Bastard for a 'death miracle', which if successful will kill both you and the intended target via one of the Bastard's demons taking your soul and theirs.

The Quadrene religion views the Bastard as a demon rather than a god, and reviles as heretical those matters which fall within his purview.

The gods have total power over the world of spirit, but their ability to affect the world of matter is highly limited at best; they thus have to rely on mortal agents. The tool is not the work, though -- tools get broken, after all -- so being a tool of the gods tends to really fucking suck.

WotFG has (at time of writing) three novels and twelve novellas.

The novels are:

The Curse of Chalion -- The Daughter's book. An escapee from a slave galley seeks a position in the household of his old patroness, is assigned as secretary-tutor to the Royesse (= princess) of Chalion (roughly equivalent to Castile in Reconquista-era Spain) and does his darndest to protect her from the deadly court machinations of the PROFOUNDLY evil chancellor and his brother while also seeking a way to break the curse of the title. (Seriously, get you someone who's as fiercely loyal and devoted to you as Cazaril is to 'his ladies'!)

Paladin of Souls -- The Bastard's book, and direct sequel to Curse, taking place a few years later. Ista, Dowager Royina of Chalion, is fed up of being locked in her rural castle by well-meaning caretakers who mistake her god-touched status for insanity. She goes on what is ostensibly a pilgrimage for her mother's soul, and finds that the gods are not done with her yet... (not quite the little-old-lady fantasy hero I've seen tumblr posts about -- Ista's in her forties -- but she is *very* badass and outspoken; one can imagine her being played by Catherine Tate)

The Hallowed Hunt -- The Son's book, set about 250 years before Curse, in the Weald (roughly analogous to Germanic areas). Ingrey kin Wolfcliff is dispatched to a remote castle to collect a young woman called Ijada, as well as the corpse of the highborn would-be rapist whose head she bashed in with a giant war hammer. Devious machinations and long-laid schemes abound surrounding the Hallow Kingship of the Weald, into which Ingrey and Ijada are swiftly drawn.

The thirteeen (so far) novellas focus on Learned Penric kin Jurald, scholar and sorcerer-divine of the Bastard's order, and his demon Desdemona. They take place roughly 150 years after Hunt (so, about a century before the start of Curse) and start out set in the Cantons (equivalent to Switzerland), but Penric (and the stories) travel around a fair bit. There is some interesting gender-wibbliness involved as well, because all of Desdemona's hosts prior to Penric were female, still live on in some way within her such that Penric can channel and converse with them, and Penric has to cross-dress more than once (particularly and memorably channelling the courtesan Mira).

In terms of approximate internal chronology, the Penric novellas are:

Penric's Demon, Penric and the Shaman, Penric's Fox (collected in the omnibus titled 'Penric's Progress')

Penric's Mission, Mira's Last Dance, The Prisoner of Limnos (collected in the omnibus titled 'Penric's Travels')

Masquerade In Lodi [chronologically earlier than the stories in Penric's Travels], The Orphans of Raspay, The Physicians of Vilnoc (collected in the omnibus titled 'Penric's Labors')

The Assassins of Thasalon, Knot of Shadows, Demon Daughter (at time of writing, to the best of my knowledge, only available in e-book format)

edit 17/08/24: Penric and the Bandit (published 1st July 2024, ebook format only)

The novels and novellas can technically be read in any order (though, being a sequel to Curse, Paladin of Souls contains spoilers for that book). Personally, I find the worldbuilding easiest to digest when reading the novels in publication order (Curse, Paladin, Hunt), then the Penric stories. It's up to you, though!

The setting of WotFG as a whole (as I mentioned at the start) is informed to varying degrees by the history of Spain's 'Reconquista' era; the influence is especially strong in The Curse of Chalion, to the point that I'd strongly advise against making a drinking game out of it -- there are parallels to persons and events you wouldn't think could *have* parallels! Good fodder for a history-side-of-tumblr meta post, though, eh? ;-) (pls tag me if you do make one, I'd love to read it!)

Having come to WotFG from Good Omens, I have a particular soft spot for the Penric stories -- there are a few parallels with GO (a small enough number that it's probably safe to make a drinking game out of it -- though I'd still recommend tumblr meta-posts as the safer and healthier alternative!), all of which are more than likely genuine coincidences, but enough to add an ineffably lovely layer of enjoyment :D Have fun finding 'em ^^ (Srsly, the AU fanfics almost write themselves...)

Happy reading!

(tagging @ao3cassandraic and @vidavalor -- I get the feeling you'll like WotFG if you haven't run across the series already)

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[orchidlanes]

need help with tagging guys

i’ve been super into the DC universe lately and I wanted to insert the Marauders characters into it and use the existing heroes as rough templates for their powers, origins and skill sets for the universe.

my problem is i won’t be following the DC lore too faithfully bc when i mean rough, i mean ROUGH. this is only coming to light because i was really interested in how I can make a League of Assassins concept work with the Black Family (it’ll actually be mostly black family centric). I’ll be fucking around with the details a lot. I’m even thinking about borrowing Wolverine’s backstory (he’s Marvel I know but i have reasons I promise) and powerset for Remus.

So what do I tag this as? Supers AU? AU - DC Comics Setting? help????

[hlahlahlahlahly]

The Hallowed Hunt has multiple quotes that reprogrammed my brain.

As a fiber artist, who makes things for the people I love, this description of a host of 400 year old ghosts is one of them

[genevieveetguy]

. Things go wrong. You can't explain it, you can't predict it. 

Twister, Jan de Bont (1996)

[halfdeadhalfdrunk]

The Hallowed Hunt, Lois McMaster Bujold

Always a big fan of immortal characters wanting something that's permanently gone. It's such a human impulse - to miss something you once had and still love. To take human impulses and magnify them beyond human limits is one of the most fun parts of fantasy to me.

[bobbinalong]

i have very mixed feelings about the twist in aosjk, tbh

[devonellington]

Wed. July 19, 2023: Why, Yes I am Ranting Because I. Am. Done

image courtesy of Gerd Altmann via pixabay.com Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Waxing Moon Pluto, Saturn, Neptune Retrograde Foggy, a little cooler, wildfire haze, sun trying to burn through This is a ranty, burn-it-all down post, so you might want to skip it. I keep thinking we’re much closer to August than we actually are. And hey, I’m out of ink again, because of course I am. And I’m having…

[cinemaquiles]

Você sabia? O legado de "Twister" (1996)

[thecraggus]

Twister (1996) Review

Looking back on Twister, a disaster movie classic of the short lived flying cow school of cinema. #Review

[bkenber]

'Twister' Movie and 4K Review

The following review was written by Ultimate Rabbit correspondent, Tony Farinella. “Twister” is a film that is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary.  It raises two important questions—where has time gone, and when did I become old?  Watching “Twister” for the first-time since its release, it is clear this is a quintessential 1990’s action flick—you have your movie stars, your big budget,…