#man from the window

[twister-sister]

Sundrop and candy: here Man from the window: here Moondrop: here

[egophiliac]

I loved your drawing(and I love your style in general) with Leia in your recent post! If/when you have time can we see more of her in your style? I get so happy whenever I actually see people mention/talk about her and she’s not just forgotten because we didn’t get to see much of her. 😭

thank you! 💙💙💙 Leia/Leah/Lea/whatever is fascinating to me. she is the ultimate unknown. what was she like? how involved (or even aware of any details of the invasion) was she? Silver's basically a physical carbon copy of his biodad, so what did he get from her? like, I understand why the two of them kind of have to stay as these super vague and mysterious figures -- the whole point of them is that their story ended 400+ years ago and they're not really relevant anymore (and. well. the more that gets explained about them, the less that can just kinda be handwaved as "oh the politics were Very Messy") (we can sit here and theorize all day but let us acknowledge that, ultimately, canon gave us almost nothing about them post-Meleanor and we'd just be making things up). I do still wonder about her though! RIP Lea, we never knew you and we probably never will.

actually you know what, as long as we're here, I think I WILL go ahead and just make some stuff up about what Silver might've inherited from her instead.

[plagueislost]

all alone in a big big house

[mondo994]

"We were both silent for a little, and then he looked at me with a direct, gentle gaze. His face in the reddish light was as soft, as vulnerable, as remote as the face of a woman who looks at you out of her thoughts and does not speak.

And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man. Any need to explain the sources of that fear vanished with the fear; what I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was.

-The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

[elodieunderglass]

Felt i needed to explain some characteristics of a very common character found in an admittedly narrow (ha) corridor of the known world

[milk-is-stable]

Something really interesting about The Leftenmost Window that on a story level makes it work so well but on a meta level makes me go "buddy...what were you thinking?" is that Egbert and Sally...are both played by Luke.

You may be saying "duh of course they're both played by Luke" but stop and think about it for a minute. One of the things that makes Egbert such a compelling character is how in every interaction we see him in, he is 100% earnest. He clearly adores Samantha, his "I love you" speech is one of the most iconic acting moments from Luke, if not from all of sfth, and nothing about the performance even hints that Egbert is anything but totally honest in this moment.

But why are we having this epic love confession in the first place? Because Samantha is worried that he's been harboring affection for Sally. And why is Samantha worried about that? Because Sally not-so-subtly dropped the hint that Egbert had been spending time with her. Most of the dramatic tension in this play is coming from that narrative thread (when it's not coming from ww1 itself)....and LUKE is the one who introduced that when he came on as Sally.

It's what makes me wonder what was going on in his head while on stage, or if it was truly a "no-thoughts, head-empty, I am possessed by these characters" type of deal, because while playing Sally, he seems determined to stir shit up; he goes from "he promised me" to "my feelings of guilt" to "there's one surefire way to make you think that" in the span of about ten minutes. He is SO SURE that Sally had sex with Egbert.

BUT when he's actually playing Egbert, he seems JUST as adamant that he was nothing but faithful to his wife, that she is the only woman for him, that what happened with Sally in the garden was entirely platonic/familial in nature. It really makes me wonder what would have happened if Tom hadn't decided to come in with the "No no, Sally only thought she fucked him, it never happened" angle, because the potential fallout of the affair being real would have been devastating. And who knows, maybe that's the kind of drama Luke "so it finishes with the villain winning!" Manning was going for, or maybe he was so in the moment as Egbert that he didn't think about what he'd set up as Sally until he was her again.

Either way, his total commitment to playing both characters so authentically is part of what makes this longform so good, even if when I take a step back, I wonder what he was thinking!

[museofthepyre]

Occupation: freak (what is wrong with him) (/aff)

[merthurians-prat-and-idiot]

Sam will really see a Luke character & ask "Is anyone going to play his spouse?" And not wait for an answer 😆

[saccharinerose]

Furina: Anyone I've ever worked with probably couldn't wait to get rid of me... Since I'm just an ordinary person now. They'll probably just laugh in my face if I go asking them for help... :(

Neuvillette, the second Furina asks him about booking the Opera Epiclese, the process for which is notably cumbersome and complex: Yes, I will take care of it immediately. Btw does this mean you will allow audiences (myself included) to enjoy your outstanding acting talents once more? 🥺

[artkaninchenbau]

I love The Girls

Especially Girl^2

[dawn-speckled]

my favourite detail in leftenmost window:

[oreo-cookies-fan]

Silco: I'm going to reclaim my trauma.

Sevika: Good for you!

Silco: Therefore, I'm going to reclaim Vander's dick.

Sevika: ... what?

[quote-from-the-hip]

"And I love you, I love everything about you! I love your BODY, I love your EYES, I love your SOUL, I love your MIND! Now please tell me, what the fuck are the Germans doing???"

– Luke Manning, The Leftenmost Window

[mahkinarya]

okay, he'll play

[polaritydisturbed]

Conrad, idk how to tell you this but you're not recording, you're playing audio. You wanna click the red circle instead of the sideways triangle.

(psh if you want a full breakdown of just how bad he is at this I made a full post here)

[milk-is-stable]

Thank you to @heliona for the poster suggestion for The Leftenmost Window! Once I decided to go in a war movie direction rather than a romance movie direction, this came together very quickly. I used a Battlefield 1 game wallpaper for the background, and borrowed some elements of the composition from the DVD cover for the 1979 version of All Quiet on the Western Front (though it's not a one-to-one recreation). If you have any prompts for longform posters, let me know!

Side by Side with the All Quiet cover below: