#annie hardinge

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One Dress a Day Challenge

The Men of September

Blackadder II / Rowan Atkinson as Edmund, Lord Blackadder

Even though this is "just" a very funny comedy show, costume designer Annie Hardinge really gave it her all. The costumes are better and more authentic-looking than some seen in serious costume dramas. Lord Blackadder dresses all in black with touches of silver and red, which not only fits his personality but was very fashionable at the time. The snake-and-dagger design on his sleeves is really beautiful and intricate, as is the ornamentation on the cape. And he's got a proper ruff!

Note: The picture with Baldrick is actually from Blackadder's Christmas Carol, but it seems to be either the same costume or an identical one.

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Jane Hayes (Keri Russell) Brown Spencer jacket & bonnet.. Austenland (2013).. Costume by Annie Hardinge.

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Costume designer Annie Hardinge likely created this sweet little gown for the 2013 movie Austenland, where the piece made its debut on Keri Russell as Jane Hayes. It went on to be reused in the 2015 television mini-series Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, where Lucinda Dryzek’s Flora Greysteel considered it while holding it up to herself in front of a mirror. Suki Waterhouse wore it the following year to portray Kitty Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, though it can best be viewed in a deleted scene. The gown also had the distinction of being used in both the 2019 short version and the 2022 film version of Mr. Malcolm’s List, first by Olivia Caley as Lucy and later by an extra. It was used again on extras in the 2020 first episode of Belgravia, as well as the 2022 second season of Sanditon.

Costume Credit: Anne81, bellcs, Chai tea latte

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Frock Flicks Guide to Costume Designer Annie Hardinge

I don’t know if Annie Hardinge has costume designed most of your favorite TV shows and films, but she sure has costumed a disturbing amount of mine. From Black Books, The Mighty Boosh, Spaced, The IT Crowd, and Extras, to cult films like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, her work in the realm... Read more → from Frock Flicks https://ift.tt/RfszC6W via IFTTT

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Julian and Noel are asked about the "meaning of Boosh"

Noel: "It's really for us."

Julian: "The thing we like to do, is to call it something that means something to us but no one else can possibly know. That amuses us every time we hear someone say it. So it's a secret, really."

(Photo: Annie Hardinge; Quote: Toronto Sun, August 2009)

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Austenland (2013) Costume design by Annie Hardinge

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I didn’t have time to do much 2021 fandom year-in- review stuff the first week of this year, but here I am fashionably late! I really enjoyed listing ten characters I enjoyed in 2021 previously, so in that vein, here are my standout movies, books, and TV shows (or seasons) that I encountered for the first time last year!

I didn’t limit myself to 10, so these lists got long.

Standout movies I encountered for the first time in 2021:

The Before Trilogy

Promising Young Woman

Misbehaviour

Little Monsters

Cruella

The Mitchells vs the Machines

Supernova

The World to Come

Peter Rabbit 2 (shut up)

Luca

Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar

Gunpowder Milkshake

The Green Knight (idk if this is necessarily one to rewatch for me, and idk if I overly like it as an adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight even, but it was weird and evocative enough that it was definitely a unique and memorable experience!)

Jungle Cruise

Train to Busan

Freaky (Vince Vaughn’s acting masterpiece, okay)

Paradise Hills

Attack the Block

Spencer

The Piano

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Don’t Look Up

Standout books I read for the first time in 2021:

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell by M.C. Beaton (Agatha/Charles time!!!!!)

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

The Town in Bloom by Dodie Smith

Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle

Rosaline Palmer Takes The Cake by Alexis Hall

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge

The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons

Self-Compassion by Dr. Kristin Neff

Deeplight by Frances Hardinge

All Creatures Great and Small by James Heriot

The Haunting of Granite Falls by Eva Ibbotson (DERANGED & DELIGHTFUL)

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (ditto!)

Standout new-to-me TV in 2021:

Saved By The Bell (2020)

Lovecraft Country

All Creatures Great and Small

Miracle Workers

Servant

Good Trouble

Sally4Ever (i will never forget ........ :( but i respect the suffering it put me through, somehow. it takes a mind of genius to make something this atrocious.)

Search Party

What We Do In The Shadows, Season 3

Superstore, Season 6

Mythic Quest

Trying

Girls5Eva

The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers

Big Shot

Hacks

Sweet Tooth

Kevin Can F**k Himself

The White Lotus

Ghosts, Season 3

Sex Education, Season 3

We Are Lady Parts

Squid Game

Midnight Mass

The Baby-Sitters Club, Season 2

Only Murders in the Building

Wellington Paranormal

Succession

The Other Two

The Great, Season 2

Mum

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Annie Hardinge!

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A Non-Exhaustive List of  Influences for Haunt Your Murderers

Because someone asked me recently where I get all my cool ideas. It’s literally from consuming so much fantastic content that gets me excited AF. So here’s all the amazing stuff I’ve thrown into the mapping out of Haunt Your Murderers over the years:

Victorian and Victorian-Inspired:

Frankenstein

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Dracula

Wuthering Heights

Sherlock Holmes

Bleak House (Dickens)

Great Expectations

Penny Dreadful

Sweeney Todd

Crimson Peak

Sleepy Hollow

The Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)

The Lie Tree (Frances Hardinge)

Possession (A.S. Byatt)

“Ozymandias” (Percy Shelley)

“Porphyria’s Lover” (Robert Browning)

“My Last Duchess” (Robert Browning)

“Darkness” (Lord Byron)

“Isabella, or The Pot of Basil” (John Keats)

Pirates and Thieves:

The Princess Bride

Pirates of the Caribbean

Stardust

Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo)

A Darker Shade of Magic (Victoria Schwab)

The Gentlemen Bastard (Scott Lynch)

The Mime Order (Samantha Shannon)

Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Circus and Spectacle:

The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)

Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)

The Magic Toy Shop (Angela Carter)

The Greatest Showman

Big Fish

Moulin Rouge

Queer and/or Gothic

American Horror Story: Hotel

Rocky Horror

Fingersmith (Sarah Waters)

Tipping the Velvet (Sarah Waters)

The Passion of New Eve (Angela Carter)

The Passion (Jeanette Winterson)

Orlando (Virginia Woolf)

Victorian Historical Figures

Burke and Hare- murderous grave-robbers

Hawley Harvey Crippen- murderer with a fuckin’ WILD escape story

William Corder- took out marriage want-ads in the paper to murder young women.

Jack the Ripper

Dr. Bernard Spilsbury- pathologist who cracked the Crippen case.

Dr. Robert Knox- Scottish anatomist

Dr. James Barry- surgeon and Victorian trans man

Thomas Boulton (Stella Clinton)- Victorian crossdresser 

Frederick Park (Fanny Winifred Park)- Victorian crossdresser

Oscar Wilde

Julie d'Aubigny- lady pirate

Marie Tussaud- of Madame Tussaud’s wax museum fame

Lord George Sanger- circus showman

Barnum and Bailey- circus showmen

Annie de Montford- hypnotist

John Nevil Maskelyne- magician

Kate and Margaret Fox- spiritualists who performed seances

I’m sure there is so much more, but it’s hard to keep track of it all.

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Jane Hayes (Keri Russell) Green dress.. Austenland (2013).. Costume by Annie Hardinge.

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On Wednesdays We Wear Pink.

And laugh without control thanks to Hugh Laurie in Blackadder The Third. I mean, how is it that I had never heard about this series? Like, HOW?! JUST LOOK AT THAT MAN AND KEEP A STRAIGHT FACE. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE.

And when you hear him very confused about words is even better.

Anyway, the costume design for this series was made by Annie Hardinge, and it looks great (except the wigs, but I think that’s part of the fun). Also, I tried to find a photo of him as Prince of Wales/King George in a kind of serious pose, but there is no such a thing.

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Happy Holidays! I have read 120+ books in 2017, and know almost every book in the bookstore. My fav thing is making people read books. So. Have a present.

Bold means I like that book the most, italic means it has some striking similarities to SNK. Note that the categories are fluid, and that this selection is mostly limited to books that I’ve read and personally liked. All books are young adult/teen fiction (YA) unless otherwise specified. Longer description doesn’t necessarily mean better book. The titles link to either the short story or the goodreads page, where you can (usually) preview the first few chapters of each book. ASK ME IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR WANT MORE YOU COWARDS.

PART ONE of ?

Required Reading, sorry I don’t make the rules – short stories available online

A Memory of Wind – Rachel Swirsky – a retelling of Iphigenia at Aulis. This is where my blog title comes from.

The Witch of Duva – Leigh Bardugo – warning; cannibalism and gingerbread and missing girls.

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula K. Leguin – would you keep one person’s life miserable in order to keep everyone else’s life happy?

Death by Landscape - Margaret Atwood – vanishing girls are my favorite girls.

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby – Donald Barthelme - absurdism: one of my favorite things.

The Shawl – Louise Erdrich: wolves and sisters and bad parents :’)

Libri Sybillini – me! – my esoteric, overly-elaborate post-crystal(ish) Annie fic that I haven’t updated in two years ;) always room for shameless self-promotion here on this blog.

Bitch I’m Here for Annie Leonhardt

Archivist Wasp – Nicole Kornher-Stace – read this book or I will Find You, “His deadpan and her sarcasm sailed right past each other, strangers passing in the night.” This is one of the most literary YA books I’ve ever read. Don’t judge this one by its cover and its obscure publisher. This one rocks everyone’s socks. Friggin here for Wasp, my girl.

The Archived – Victoria Schwab – fairly serious, recommended for how well it deals with grief and responsibility, sad girl Mackenzie, and mascara-wearing boy neighbor. Just, like, stab my heart. Read this Or Else.

Reboot – Amy Tintera – YA with sex mention in final book – pretty serious, recommended for cold main character Wren and the cute softboi love interest, also the premise that kids who come back from the dead have to become supersoldiers.

A Study in Charlotte – Brittany Cavallaro –  older YA due to drug addiction, sexual assault mention, etc. Hilarious but serious. Recommended for very hard and dark topics, troubled Charlotte Holmes and sweet softboi  Jamie Watson. Also detectives. Also pain. Read this Or Else.

Shade Me – Jennifer Brown – older YA/New Adult (NA) Warning: Nikki Kill, like the noir detectives whose tropes she’s upending, has a lot of undescribed casual sex. Also, child prostitution figures largely in this story. Also, like any brooding noir character, she chainsmokes. Very serious. But oh god gotta love her standoffishness, and the dark urban topics.

Trust Me, I’m Lying – Mary Elizabeth Summer – funny and serious, here for the sass, the con, the moral ambiguity, and the heartbreak.

The Girl is Murder – Kathryn Miller Haines - funny and serious, here for the WWII home front detective girl who has to move to a new school and investigate a murder among its ranks.

Julia Vanishes – Catherine Egan – YA with mention of the mc having sex – funny and angsty, here for the witty, morally ambiguous main character making bad decisions, also the pureness, the sincerity of the book overall. PAIN. Read this Or Else.

Girls Made of Snow and Glass – Melissa Bashardoust - haven’t read it yet, but I just borrowed it from the library and I hear serious praise and serious feminism. Here for the 17-year-old stepmother with a heart made of glass, the 15 year-old stepdaughter with a body made of snow, complicated relationships, and hard girls who just want to be loved.

The Grisha Trilogy – Leigh Bardugo – sex mentions, rape mention, funny and serious, here for the grumpy old grandma in a teenager’s body Alina Starkov, also Baghra. And the Darkling J. And Genya. Everything. Read this Or Else.

The Language of Thorns – Leigh Bardugo – dark and lush original fairy tale anthology says it all. There is cannibalism. Feminism. Angry lonely girls. Delicious. Read this Or Else.

The Lie Tree – Frances Hardinge – serious but flawless, no romance. Here for the complicated, neglectful father-daughter relationship. Here for the 1800s paleontology. The tackling of ingrained misogyny. The hardcore FEMINISM. The bad choices made J. And of course, the barely-there otherworldliness. Read this or Else.

M.F.K. – Nilah Magruder – Webcomic/graphic novel – serious and slightly funny. Here for the gorgeous art and the standoffish main character. And the softboi sidekick. No romance, so far.

The Flavia Albia detective series – Lindsey Davis – Adult detective series – sex mentions, narrative is scathingly hilarious, but there are serious things. Here for the sardonic Albiola, female detective in Rome, who had a very hard childhood, and at one point in the first book impales a man’s hand on a table with a knife. One key difference from Annie – she is not a cat person, pooh-pooh. Read this Or Else.

The Forbidden Wish – Jessica Khoury – mostly serious, here for immortal sad djinn girl who had to betray her best friend/habiba centuries ago.

A Creature of Moonlight –  Rebecca Hahn – mostly no romance, serious and mythical, here for girls who turn into trees and walk their own path. Not of this world. Read this Or Else.

A Wicked Thing – Rhiannon Thomas – serious, no romance in the first book, here for sleeping beauty and serious feminism. Beautiful. Thought-provoking. Read this Or Else.

A Study in Scarlet Women – Sherry Thomas – adult detective series, sex mentions, serious, here for fem Sherlock and feminism.

Girl Waits With Gun – adult detective/police series, serious, vague sex mention, here for sad 30-something mc investigating things in the 1910s. The main character and her sisters were all real people, and the stories in this series follow real cases she solved.

The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco – Old monk and young monk investigate a murder in an abbey with the best library since Alexandria and uncover the secrets of the universe instead. Sorta. This inspired an snk au of mine that I never got to use :’) HIDDEN LIBRARIES AND SEMIOTICS.

A Northern Light – Jennifer Donnelly – sex mentions, serious, here for servant girl investigating a drowning death, feminism, and forging out on her own.

The Agency – YS. Lee, serious and a little funny, here for the all-female detective agency, the outsider mc detective (hint, she’s not fully white), and Victorian London.

The Lady Grace Mysteries, Middle-Grade (MG) fiction, half-half serious-funny. Here for 14 year old Lady Grace Cavendish, who is the ward and a Maid of Honor of Queen Elizabeth. She solves serious mysteries and untangles political intrigue with her entertainer friend and servant friend. Diary format. I loved this series, BUT ALL BOOKS AFTER THE SIXTH HAVEN’T BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE USA ARGH. I will be buying them on amazon. Sometime.

The Last Namsara – Kristen Ciccarelli – YA with sexual harassment scenes, intense abuse of slaves, very slightly Arab-coded (though wtf is it with the country’s name), with the slave ethnicity slightly Germanic-coded, well-navigated slave-master romance. Asha, a princess whose rendezvous with dragons at age 8 unknowingly caused her capital city to nearly burn to the ground, is now a bitter, callous, kindness-starved, severely-scarred dragon hunter trying to escape arranged marriage to the brutal, abusive commander of her father’s army by hunting the First Dragon. I loved the ship (softish boi, hard girl).

A Thousand Nights – E.K. Johnston – sex mentions, no romance but there is arranged marriage, serious. Here for the best Scheherazade reimagining I’ve ever encountered in my entire short life. Here for the appreciation of women’s work. Here for how the author dealt with the king, who is possessed by a demon, completely – the demon feeds off human creativity and his brides’ life energy. Here for the pre-Islamic tribal Arabic setting and the theology of smallgods, who are usually people who helped the tribe in some way, now deceased. Here for the strength of the unnamed main character, the strength of the love between her and her half-sister, and how her half-sister gets people to pray to her and essentially make her a living smallgod, in this way enabling her to face off against the djinn-king. Here for the beautiful, aching writing. Here for this story that gives voice to the traditionally-voiceless, exalts the nameless numbers of women who create the world. Read this Or Else.

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Questions for the Blogger!

tagged by @lankybrunettepartdeux (my apologies for being half-hearted about this, I’m a lazy ass!)

Rules: Answer 30  questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to know better.

1. Nicknames: I tried very very hard at Uni to give myself the nickname ‘Leaf’ but it never worked out :p 2. Gender: Female 3. Star sign: Scorpio (but I never seem to fit ANY of the descriptions) 4. Height: don’t remember, can’t be bothered to check... something like 5′1 5. Time: 11.45am (BST) 6. Birthday: 7th Nov 1984 7 & 8. Favorite Bands & Favorite solo artists: I’ve combined these because my answer covers both - see truth is I don’t really ‘do’ music, so... never really sure who is solo and who is a band (is Pink the person? is Bon Jovi the band? idek!) and... I have SONGS I enjoy, but don’t really pay attention to the artists most of the time... kinda like Meatloaf, listen to Swift sometimes, recently grabbed a bunch of songs by Halsey... have also listened to Kansas and AC/CD... but I like cheesy shit too like ABBA... um, Bonnie Tyler... Annie Lennox... Dolly Parton... basically I have no musical taste is what I’m saying, and generally whatever fandom I’m in dictates what music I like at the time 9. Song stuck in my head: “Purple Rain” (oh gee I wonder how THAT happened :p) 10. Last movie I watched: Kingsman The Golden Circle :) 11. Last show I watched: Justice League Action (well one episode :p) 12. When did I create my blog: don’t remember... 13. What do I Post/Reblog: geeky stuff 14. Last Thing I Googled: literally just now “who is in control lyrics” - because I couldn’t remember the artist of the song for the Q above (that’s how bad I am at music) 15. Other Blogs: got an LJ still kicking about somewhere 16. Do I get asks: it has been known :p 17. Why I Chose My URL: my name’s holly, I’m small... also when I first needed to create an online username for LJ back in the day my first choice of ‘hollyleaf’ was already taken 18. Following: too many :p (tumblr has been running slow for me for a while and I suspect it’s cos of the amount of blogs I follow... I try and prune now and then but... eh) 19. Followers: too many! seriously guys, what are you all here for? I’m so ridiculous! (I suspect a lot are actually porn blogs/bots though - I only discovered this year how to check who is following you and that you can block them... I so can’t be bothered to wade through my existing followers and try and figure out which are and aren’t real though) 20. Average Hours of Sleep: 6-8 21. Lucky number: 7 I guess 22. Instruments: See above about me and music - playing is worse because... I can’t always tell when something is out of tune (my dad is legit tone deaf and I’ve long suspected I may take after him). I did play the flute to Grade 2 when I was younger though. I enjoyed it but never really... got INTO it, you know? I was always, like, ‘playing by numbers’ I suppose? 23. What am I wearing: PJs. It’s my day off leave me alone. 24. Dream job: No job. I have ZERO ambition. If I could just chill and fandom and snuggle with my cats every day I would. My job gets me money to live, that’s all (although I do like my job okay!) 25. Dream Trip: SDCC! Although atm I am also really kinda interested in visiting Japan 26. Favorite Food: Pork, probably. Unless you count drinks, in which case Coke and/or Mountain Dew. 27. Nationality: Brit. 28. Favorite Song RIGHT NOW: Ah no single one, just dumb stuff that gives me nygmobbelpot feelings mostly - “All of Me” by John Legend, “Loving You is a Dirty Job (But Someone’s Gotta Do It)” by Bonnie Tyler, “Strange Love” by Halsey... (I REALLY NEED some foxma songs though, so if anyone has any ideas??) 29. Last Book Read: Last one I finished was “A Skinful of Shadows” by Frances Hardinge (who is AMAZING and it was AMAZING everyone read her if you like slightly spooky stuff that, thank goodness, LACKS ROMANCE). Currently reading “Lockwood and Co. The Empty Grave” by Jonathan Stroud :)

30. Top Three Fictional Universes You’d Want to Join: 

Doctor Who (because it’s basically ours but with the chance you might stumble into the TARDIS one day, so I could theoretically keep my life largely as is :p)

Labyrinth (again, basically ours, but if you played your cards right you might get whisked off for a magical adventure with the Goblin King for a night, which is a win!)

The Librarians (this has the same element of ‘our world but magic is real’ but in a twist on the above I’d actually be happy to be part of the action in this world, because the characters’ magic adventures seem fun and with the least amount of trauma involved, lol! I don’t think I’d be smart enough to be a Librarian though alas)

Oh sorry, did you think I’d say Gotham or spn? Fuck that, you know if ~I lived in those universes I’d be Extra #3 in the cold open who gets violently slaughtered by the monster/villain of the week, so no thanks! (and even if not - I could not handle the stress of living in Gotham, have you SEEN what happens there??)

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what books are in your tbr list right now?

-The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman-Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh-House of Furies by Madeleine Roux-The Romeo Catchers by Alys Arden-In Some Other Life by Jessica Brody-Scythe by Neal Shusterman-This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab-Once and For All by Sarah Dessen-Thorn by Intisar Khanani-Cage of Deceit by Jennifer Anne Davis-180 Seconds by Jessica Park-A Dance Like Flame by Tammy Blackwell-The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster by Scott Wilbanks-The Watchmaker’s Daughter by C.J. Archer-Beauty of the Beast by Rachel L. Demeter-The Mad King by Jovee Winters-The Rook by Daniel O’Malley-Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor-Vicious by V.E. Schwab-Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye-A Skinful of Shadows by Francis Hardinge-A Face Like Glass by Franic Hardinge-Making Faces by Amy Harmon-Odd & True by Cat Winters-Wicked Like a Wildfire by Lana Popovic-Dreamfall by Amy Plum-Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley-The Hearts We Sold by Emily Lloyd-Jones-But Then I Came Back by Estelle Laure-The Alice Network by Kate Quinn-Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco-The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy-A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab-Black Bird of the Gallows by Meg Kassel-Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley-Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly-Heartless by Marissa Meyer-All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

So many books, so little time (and money 😭)