#houdini & doyle

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[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Escape Antics

Lovecraft: s-so my editor at weird tales wants me to ghost write a story Lovecraft: for harry houdini King: harry houdini? the famous escape artist? King: wow, howard, what an opportunity! Lovecraft: i guess King: whats the matter howard Lovecraft: i just Lovecraft: Lovecraft: what kind of name is houdini

Harry Houdini: pick a card! pick any card! Lovecraft: ok Houdini: is it Houdini: the ace of spades?????? Lovecraft: wow! what the Lovecraft: it is! Lovecraft: that's incredible! Lovecraft: they should call you "harry how'd he do that"

Lovecraft: cuz people are gonna be wondering "how'd he do that" Houdini: "harry how'd he do that" Houdini: hmm that's good Houdini: damnit i should have thought of that

Lovecraft: ya know harry Lovecraft: you're alright Lovecraft: for an italian Houdini: oh houdini's just a stage name Lovecraft: oh good! Houdini: my real name is weisz Lovecraft:

Houdini: so there i was Houdini: trapped in the bowels of the pyramid Houdini: mummies to the left of me Houdini: mummies to the right of me Houdini: and that's when Houdini: i started to get mad Houdini: and that's the story of my egyptian vacation Lovecraft: wait a minute Lovecraft: did any of that really happen? Houdini: no, not really Lovecraft: Lovecraft: do you take constructive criticism? Lovecraft: what if Lovecraft: instead of mummies Lovecraft: you met some eldritch abominations? Houdini: but still in the pyramid, right? Lovecraft: oh yeah yeah the pyramid is great Lovecraft: people love a good pyramid

Houdini: so there i was Houdini: trapped in the bowels of the pyramid Houdini: eldritch horrors from beyond infinity to the left of me Houdini: eldritch horrors from beyond infinity to the right of me Houdini: and that's when Houdini: i started to get mad

Arthur Conan Doyle: wow! Doyle: i can't believe that's a real story that really happened! Doyle: to think! proof that eldritch space monsters are real! Doyle: proof in our time!

Doyle: harry, how did you escape from the pyramid Houdini: [tapping nose conspiratorially] Doyle: aw c'mon! Doyle: c'mon! Doyle: Doyle: C'MON!

Houdini: so there i was Houdini: the world's greatest escape artist Houdini: trapped in a mind-boggling pyramid trap Houdini: by an eldritch horror Frank Belknap Long: what if the eldritch horror was a giant hot sexy wolf with six arms and big boobs

Houdini: i Houdini: what Long: like in bend your knees to the brain tease Houdini: Houdini: what Long: god i wish that was me Long: lost in her pyramid Edward Lee: whats this about boobs

[adamnagaitisnews]

Flashback: Adam Nagaitis as an art model for Vanessa Garwood's 'King Robin' painting, 2015

(+ 'The Gun Portrait' of the Brontë family)

I love the fact that Adam posed for a painting! Even if the character is not the kindest one. (When was it an obstacle for him, right? 🙂)

Vanessa Garwood describing her work on Instagram (https://instagram.com/vanessagarwood?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)

Work in progress, the closeup:

Adam posing:

BONUS:

Gudgett-haired Adam with the finished work:

BONUS #2 (To fit it all in one post):

'The Gun Portrait' of the Brontë family, recreated by Timna Woollard for 'To Walk Invisible', with the actors as art models.

Resides at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

(Timna Woollard's Instagram: https://instagram.com/timnawoollard?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)

The photo:

[weast-of-eden]

my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called "fairy or walrus tumblr poll" youll be zonked out of your gourd

Me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude i swear i saw a fairy at the front door. at least it’s not a walrus that’d be weird as fuck right

my good friend and notable author sir arthur conan doyle: I FUCKING KNEW IT ‼️‼️

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

If I had a nickel for every time a cool, unique show I liked was cancelled before its natural end, I’d have AT LEAST 12-13 nickels, which actually is a lot, goddammit, this is some kind of conspiracy created by the nickel company to release more nickels

[reine-du-sourire]

Arthur comes to the Phantomhive Manor for a visit one day, bringing along his good friend Harry Houdini.

Determined to prove to Harry once and for all that magic does exist, Arthur hatches a brilliant plan. He's certain that should Ciel see Harry's prowess in the arts of escapism and slight-of-hand, surely the haughty little lord would be unable to resist showing off his butler's superior abilities- abilities that most decidedly are not mere tricks of the stage.

It begins splendidly. Over cups of tea and elegant Hungarian pastries in honor of their guest, Arthur excitedly enumerates Harry's various successful feats. Ciel is fascinated and, bidding Sebastian fetch the appropriate supplies, demands a performance.

Harry puts one on, and what a performance it is- picking things up with his eyelids, selective regurgitating, card tricks that even Ciel can't unravel, and finally escaping a straitjacket and a pair of handcuffs (to his credit, he doesn't ask why Ciel has these in the first place).

"You know," says the little lord, after applauding with a rather unchildish gleam in his eye, "my butler's quite good at those sorts of stunts too, especially spitting things up. Why, I've watched him do it with real bullets. Perhaps you'd like to see?"

Intrigued, Harry takes his seat again, and it's Sebastian's turn to show off. This he does with gleeful aplomb; repeating everything that Harry's done and then adding in some little impossible-seeming twists of his own. Recognizing a fellow performer, Harry applauds wholeheartedly both the tricks and the true showmanship with which they were done.

"See," Arthur pleads. "It's magic, Harry, demonic magic, won't you admit at last that magic exists?"

It doesn't quite have the effect Arthur expected. Harry gets extremely offended on Sebastian's behalf. He informs Arthur in no uncertain terms that it's insulting to say such things; to reduce hard work and perseverance to mere sorcery or the supernatural is to cheapen and slander the arts of the stage.

Finding this whole affair colossally funny, Sebastian does not correct him.

A wink passes between master and butler, but through his near-tears of frustration, Arthur doesn't catch it.

Harry swallows the last of the pastries with an indignant huff.

[delphinidin4]

Spiritualist movement be like:

[thewritehag]

Wanna know something interesting, but also extremely sad?

When Harry Houdini's mother died, he was distraught (naturally) and this was at the time when spiritualism was booming, and he just wanted to talk to his mom again. He was a mama's boy (affectionate).

Due to a mutual interest in spiritualism, Houdini met and became friends with A. Conan Doyle. When Houdini expressed that he didnt think he'd ever hear from his mother again (being a skeptic), Doyle disagreed and said it was possible. Turns out, Jean Doyle (Arthur's wife) was a medium, so Arthur set up a meeting.

When Jean channeled Cecilia Steiner Weiss (Houdini's mother) to write a message to her son, she started by drawing a cross at the top of the page and wrote the message in flawless English.

Houdini left the session seemingly unperturbed, but was seething internally for two reasons:

Cecilia Steiner Weiss spoke Hungarian, German, French, and Spanish. Not English. Letters between her and Harry (though his mother almost certainly called him by his birth name, Erich) were only ever in German.

Cecilia Steiner Weiss was Jewish. She would never have drawn a Christian cross especially on a message to her son.

Houdini was already skeptical of spiritual mediums, believing they preyed upon the emotionally vulnerable, before he even met Doyle. After the session, Houdini wrote reports about the experience, calling it fake and addressed A. Conan Doyle specifically, saying "Your wife is either a mental degenerate or a fraud, one of the two."

Houdini and Doyle did not stay friends after this incident. Naturally.

[fullcolorfright]

The Man from Beyond (1922)

[mint-is-here]

Maurice Leblanc(the writer of Arsène Lupin): writes Arsène Lupin Versus Sherlock Holmes, an entire book about lupin basically shaming Holmes' detective skills and sort of sayign the french were better than the english Arthur Conan Doyle(Sherlock's writer): How dare you do such thing to my character! i'm going to sue you! Leblanc: waitwaitwait, what if i change the detective's name? then its not going to be related to yours in any way Doyle:…i mean, i guess it works. yeah, you can do it. but what are you going to name him? Leblanc: :). Dolye: Leblanc. What are you going to name him. Leblanc: :). Dolye: …Leblanc i swear to god- The fricking book:

[missanthrory]

You know had the walrus and fairy debate happened in the early 1900s instead of our time, Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle would have possibly come to blows over it.

[corneliushickey1111]

We decided to make a fan site about Adam Nagaitis because we can't afford to take out billboards to tell everyone how great we think he is. It just went live yesterday, and there's more things to come on it. :)

[baconpncakes]

Gonna force all you House freaks to watch Houdini & Doyle next. My white whale. One of my favorite shows ever. THE cancellation I will never recover from. David Shore's finest work. Michael Weston (Lucas Douglas) as an insufferable leading man.

[boscofuller]

[thefirsthogokage]

For those of you wondering the amount of minimum writing staff WGA is asking for:

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[avonlea71]

Rebecca Liddiard as Adelaide Stratton in Houdini & Doyle.