#Serena Rutherford

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I miss this show so much

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Gossip Girl - 5x18 "Con Heir"

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My Favourite Screenshots from Gossip Girl: Season Four, Part 3.

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Tag Game

Tag 9 people you want to get to know better. I was tagged by @hayffiebird Thank you c:

Three ships:

Virgilia/Plutarch. I know, a bit cliche to put my own ship forth here, but I'm noticing how much less of a shipper I've become insofar that I've more lukewarm takes on most ships, but this is one I'm really passionate about. It really (obviously) encompasses a lot of what I personally enjoy in seeing a relationship unfold. Virgilia has her own personal journey that fits well with Plutarch's. They complement each other so well and it's enjoyable to write / think about them :>

David Butt/Julia Montague. Those two are from the BBC series Bodyguard and they are such an interesting couple. There's hatred initially, each of their moments bringing them closer, and the final resolution of their story (the question of being together) never finding an answer. The show has its own problems with the portrayal of Muslim characters, and tbf whenever I rewatch it I only watch the first three episodes, but it has a sort of tension and development that I've really never seen replicated. I'm a sucker for bodyguard stuff, but none ever did it as well as this show, and most of those stories are far too smutty, far too overprotective, far too easily and quickly resolve (and me and @beedelia totally have a Plutarch&V AU based on those two).

This is NOT a ROMANTIC ship (hence the &), but I love PLATONIC stuff so much, so: Ellie Williams&Joel Miller. I really, fully, enjoy their growth together. I love a good parenting platonic not-actually-related situation. Their story is so raw. It's the way that their relationship is painted through struggles. It's the going through everything to keep their dad/their daughter safe. I love their journey and I love both games so much.

This was really hard because, as I said, I've got plenty of ships and I feel rather lukewarm about them. As in, yeah, I enjoyed this, but it doesn't have my mind spinning once I finish it and am done with the show/game. Here's a list of some ships I enjoy, but do not have a lot to say about: F!Commander Shepard/Miranda Lawson (Mass Effect), Cullen Rutherford/F!Inquisitor (Dragon Age), Will Graham/Bedelia Du Maurier (Hannibal), Serena Joy/Mark Tuello (Handmaid's Tale), Blackbeard/Stede Bonnet (Our Flag Means Death), Newt Scamander/Leta Lestrange (Fantastic Beasts). Was this cheating? Maybe, lol.

First ever ship:

I think my first ever ship was Captain Amelia/Dr. Doppler, mostly because I was very gay for Amelia and was excited for any romance interest she got. Like, it should have been me, but this was second best. I didn't write fanfiction about it or anything because I was far too young, but I think this was the first moment where I really shipped something.

First time I engaged with fandom might have been Remus Lupin/Tonks. Though I mostly read stuff rather than wrote anything.

First time I wrote something (in rp) was Haymitch/Effie, though I don't ship them anymore--same as Lupin and Tonks actually lol. Both for different reasons.

Last song: Bottom of the River by Delta Rae. Been listening to this one while writing!

Last movie: Everything Everywhere All At Once. I've had this on my watchlist since release and finally got around to it. Feels like something you should totally watch a second time. It was a brilliant movie.

Currently reading: A secret history. I'm not sure what to think of it yet & I'm halfway through. It's definitely interesting, but it's a very slow read (or maybe me mostly reading it in bed before falling asleep just doesn't read very fast).

Currently watching: Arctic Warrior. It's a German TV show about one (military) expert and one beginner having to survive (and travel through) the arctic parts of Finland. I usually don't enjoy those kind of shows, but I have a soft spot for Otto + watching it as an uncut reaction video from a favourite youtuber of mine is double fun. Actual tv series though, I want to start Succession (thanks Emily, lol) and/or Yellowjackets.

Currently consuming: I ate my salad + slice of bread for the evening :>

Currently craving: Still a bit hungry, so maybe some fruit later. I've got mango and peaches at home :)

Tagging: @beedelia @footnoteinhistory @plvtarch @mrsalanavalentine @rosegardeninwinter @ellanainthetardis @endlessnightlock @tinyfrenchowl @mollywog @districtunrest @bexbaxx @thegoddessprose @jenniferiawrence

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leaving off Ed Westwick bc I'm assuming we all want the rapist dead but who else

for bonus points tell me in the tags which characters get sent to our world

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Blithe Spirit Serena Evans, Charles Edwards, Angela Lansbury, Janie Dee and Simon Jones

Blithe Spirit review – Angela Lansbury's happy medium

Gielgud, London

The Broadway veteran plays a magnificently dotty Madame Arcati in this remarkable production of Coward's glacial comedy

Susannah Clapp - Mar 2014

She strides on in plaid tweeds, and shimmies around in a bespangled gilet. Under a sparkling hair-net, bright ginger plaits snake around her ears like headphones, a hair arrangement modelled on the woman who looked after the actress as a child. Burbling necromantic nonsense, she judders across the stage in an Egyptian sand dance, swoons into trance and gushes over ghosts that she can't see. Yet she also has hearty, bullying-off moments and flashes of beady-eyed shrewdness. She is part Brown Owl, part Barn Owl.

It is above all Angela Lansbury that people have come to see in Blithe Spirit. The 88-year-old actor, who has played mother to Elvis Presley, Laurence Harvey and Hamlet, who has starred in Gypsy and Sweeney Todd and been svelte and crisp as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, now takes on one of the stage's lovable gargoyles. Madame Arcati, the preposterous medium who claims to have had her first ectoplasmic manifestation when she was five and a half, is not actually the largest part in Noël Coward's 1941 comedy. Yet she – inhabited with benign splendour by Margaret Rutherford on screen – is the character everyone remembers. Lansbury gets a Broadway burst of applause whenever she arrives on the stage. She earns it. Not only for her rococo adornments but for something more central. Her Madame Arcati is not merely a dotty fraud but someone who believes in her own mystic powers. This is essential. For the grip of Michael Blakemore's remarkable production – one that grows in the course of the evening – is in showing how disturbing this glacial comedy can be.

Coward wrote Blithe Spirit in five days during the second world war. At the premiere the audience walked on planks over rubble caused by an air-raid to watch a play that seemed to giggle at death. The plot is like a parody of a folk tale in which a witchdoctor wreaks havoc among superstitious villagers. A man whose first wife died of a heart attack while listening to a comedy show on the BBC Light Programme (does the audience's pleasure at this show scepticism or belief?) takes part, with Wife Two, at a seance. The ghost of Wife One turns up, unseen by all but her former hubbie, and causes mayhem. Wife Two gets done in by Wife One and herself comes back for a double haunting. Yet the dialogue is pure Coward, acidic and nonchalant. "Anything interesting in the Times?" "Don't be silly, Charles."

It is not altogether surprising that Graham Greene considered this "a weary exhibition of bad taste" or that others recoiled. Yet the play was an enormous popular success: its record number (for a non-musical) of 1,997 performances in the West End was to be broken only by The Mousetrap. The war years spawned a number of plays featuring time travel and marvellous returns, JB Priestley's among them. Still, you could hardly say that this tale of a trio at war among themselves offers much solace. The ghosts are furious. The ending is not happy. Coward said: "If there was a heart, it would be a sad story.'

What it does have is technical daring and theatrical brio. A versatile misogyny, in which one vamp, one crank, and one nag circle around a charming male wastrel, allows ample opportunity for sharp-edged performances.

Many people still find it easier to laugh at a batty woman than a witty one. So Lansbury gets more comic approval than Janie Dee as Wife Two, who is not yet at her most goldenly relaxed best (and shoe-horned into a hideous purple dress with cut-out shoulders). Charles Edwards as the suave but set-upon Charles, the part that Coward played on tour, is effortlessly accomplished: urbane rather than arch, suggesting a lifetime at ease with his own good opinion of himself. Patsy Ferran makes a scene-stealing debut as the alarming maid who gallops everywhere. She adds something singularly disconcerting. With her head on one side, and a swivelling eye, she sticks her face too close to everyone for comfort. As if she were hoovering up ectoplasm.

It is hard to imagine Coward's plaited dialogue better projected in the scene in which Charles talks both to his living wife and to his ghostly first, whom only he can see. New playwrights should study it, as they should the spectacular moments of spectral action in which childish magic and adult chilliness meet. With the arrival of ghosts, doors need to be opened and shut by an invisible hand. A gramophone must begin playing Always without assistance. No massive machinery is employed here. There is no recourse to cinematic special effects. This is theatrical sleight-of-hand taking place in front of the audience's eyes.

One of the most beguiling asides in Blakemore's memoir Stage Blood, which has just won this year's Sheridan Morley prize for theatre biography, comes when the great theatrical veteran describes a technical difficulty in The Front Page. He explains that he solved it by using a device that "I remembered from my time as a child conjuror". Those days have stood him in good stead.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/mar/23/blithe-spirit-review-angela-lansbury-happy-medium

Dame Angela, making it look effortless at 88: QUENTIN LETTS reviews Blithe Spirit

Dame Angela Lansbury was born in 1925, the same year as June Whitfield (not to mention Tony Benn and Pol Pot).

That makes her 88, not so rare an age these days but still unusual for someone taking a leading role in an expensive West End show.

So how is she as Madame Arcati in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit? Does she convince as this dotty old cabbage? Of course. She is perfect. Makes it look effortless.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2583921/Dame-Angela-making-look-effortless-88-QUENTIN-LETTS-reviews-Blithe-Spirit.html

Blithe Spirit (2020) From Margaret Rutherford to Judi Dench - Movie Review

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Gossip Girl Rewatch: S02E15 Gone With the Will

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Gossip Girl S01E09 | Blair Waldorf Must Pie

Book: At First Sight (2005), Nicholas Sparks

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rufus humphrey and lily van der woodsen (gossip girl) + 'the 1' by taylor swift

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So I finished s1 of the og gossip girl

My thoughts so far:

I love Blair now she's iconic

Chuck is growing on me and I love him and Blair as a couple

I like nate for the most part and I kind of shipped him with Vanessa

I still love Dan but spoiler alert I spoiled myself that dan is gossip girl and now Idk how I feel about him anymore. I just like sarcastic people so I feel torn

Jenny was becoming more and more annoying as the season went on but her storyline is interesting

I still like Serena but I read some people's comments about her which made me rethink how I feel about her but for the most part I still like her

I thought Vanessa was annoying at first but as the season went on I started to like her

Most of the parents on the show are kind of assholes so far maybe not Rufus I really like him so far but the rest get on my nerves most of the time

I don't understand what lily and Rufus decided as they said I love you to each other then lily went to marry Chuck's father so I'm confused

I hated Georgina so much * don't know if I wrote her name right *

I still ship Serena and Dan but because spoiler alert I spoiled myself that dan is gossip girl I don't know how I feel about them anymore

I thought at first that the show was trying to set Jenny with Eric but then he turns out to be gay then I thought they were trying to set Jenny with nate so now I'm confused on who nate and Jenny are gonna be with or maybe they will be single who knows

The fact that the show is trying to set Dan and Serena and their parents together at the same time is a little weird but not very weird bec in my country it's okay to have that kind of relationship but it doesn't hapoen often

I'm still wondering where is Serena's and Eric's father? I thought by the end of the season they would have answered that but he hasn't been mentioned at all is he even alive?

I think that's all my thoughts so far but I'm really excited for s2

And I really love doing this so when I start s2 i will do another one of these

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On set of Gossip Girl - April 2008

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6.05 monstrous ball Serena van der Woodsen looks part 1,

like or reblog if you save please <3

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If you’re a #gossipgirl fan, check out my latest video: The Best Of Blair Waldorf

https://youtu.be/WfaM-jjmd3I

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“Did you hire someone to Iook into my past? Do you have a LiIy Bass dossier?”

Lily van der Woodsen in every episode (2x05)